| outbreak of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in a hospital in gdask, poland, due to horizontal transfer of different tn1546-like transposon variants and clonal spread of several strains. | twenty-two vancomycin-resistant enterococcal (vre) isolates of the vana phenotype (21 enterococcus faecium isolates and 1 e. faecalis isolate), representative of a large outbreak that occurred in a hospital in gdańsk, poland, were studied. all of the isolates demonstrated resistance to a wide variety of other antimicrobial agents in addition to glycopeptides. several lines of evidence suggested that the outbreak most probably consisted of two epidemics that followed the independent introduction ... | 2000 | 10970377 |
| [the prevalence of tetracycline resistance genes in clinical and commensal strains of enterococcus faecalis isolated in gdańsk]. | the common use of antibiotics is responsible for selecting of drug resistance not only in pathogenic, clinical bacteria but also in commensal, not pathogenic strains which could cause the rapid dissemination of the resistance to these antibacterial agents. however, information regarding the antibiotic resistance of commensal bacteria is very scarce, and the data is based mostly on phenotypical research. therefore the use of genotyping methods for detection of tetracycline resistance genes, in co ... | 2008 | 18634339 |