| genotypic characterisation of vancomycin-resistant enterococcus faecium isolates from haemato-oncological patients at olomouc university hospital, czech republic. | this study describes the first molecular characterisation of clinical isolates of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (vre) in the czech republic. of 2647 patient isolates of enterococcus spp. from 1997-2002, 121 (4.6%) were identified as vre. the most common isolates were vana+ enterococcus faecium (78%) and vanb+ enterococcus faecalis (10%). in addition, five vana+ e. faecium isolates were obtained from environmental and staff sampling. macrorestriction analysis of smai restriction fragment lengt ... | 2006 | 16524412 |