| high prevalence of st-78 infection-associated vancomycin-resistant enterococcus faecium from hospitals in asunción, paraguay. | forty infection-associated vana-type vancomycin-resistant enterococcus faecium (vre) strains obtained from five collaborating hospitals in asunción, paraguay were investigated. genotyping using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (pfge) and multilocus sequence typing revealed the presence of 17 cluster types and four sts, with 93% (37/40) of isolates comprising st type 78. other st types included st-132, st-210 and one new st type (st-438). all but one isolate (st-438) were associated with clonal c ... | 2010 | 19622078 |