Increasing tolerance of hospital Enterococcus faecium to hand-rub alcohols
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Affiliations: 5 1 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, 6 University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia. 7 Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Departments, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, 3084, Australia. 8 Australian Collaborating Centre for Enterococcus and Staphylococcus Species (ACCESS) Typing and 9 Research, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, 6150, 10 Australia. 11 4 Department of Microbiology, PathWest Laboratory Medicine, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, Western 12 Australia, 6150, Australia. 13 5 Microbiological Diagnostic Unit Public Health Laboratory, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, 14 The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia. 15 16
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