| prevalence of vanc vancomycin-resistant enterococci in the teaching hospitals of the university of debrecen, hungary. | vancomycin-resistant enterococci (vre) are common nosocomial pathogens; however, until now they have been rarely encountered in hungary. in the present study, we investigated the prevalence of vre in the teaching hospitals of the university of debrecen. of 7,271 enterococcus-containing clinical samples collected between 2004 and 2009, we identified 16 vre. species-specific polymerase chain reaction was used to detect enterococcus faecalis, enterococcus faecium, enterococcus casseliflavus, and en ... | 2011 | 21649462 |