| enterococcal isolates carrying the novel oxazolidinone resistance gene optra from hospitals in zhejiang, guangdong, and henan, china, 2010-2014. | a collection of 1159 enterococcal isolates from five chinese hospitals were screened for the presence of the novel oxazolidinone resistance gene optra, which was found in 34 (2.9%) isolates. pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (pfge) typing of 29 optra-carrying enterococcus faecalis isolates revealed 25 pfge patterns, and multilocus sequence typing yielded 20 sequence types. routine surveillance of optra-positive enterococci in hospitals should be conducted to monitor and counteract their further d ... | 2015 | 26319902 |