Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci in Intensive Care Units
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Vancomycin-resistant enterococci in intensive care hospital settings.
Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) have recently emerged as a nosocomial pathogen and present an increasing threat to the treatment of severely ill patients in intensive-care hospital settings. We outline results of a study of the epidemiology of VRE transmission in ICUs and define a reproductive number R0; the number of secondary colonization cases induced by a single VRE-colonized patient...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Internal Medicine
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0003-9926
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.159.13.1467