Antibiotic Resistance and Molecular Epidemiology of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Turkey

AŞGIN N. , OTLU B.

INFECTION AND DRUG RESISTANCE, cilt.13, ss.191-198, 2020 (SCI İndekslerine Giren Dergi) identifier identifier

  • Cilt numarası: 13
  • Basım Tarihi: 2020
  • Doi Numarası: 10.2147/idr.s191081
  • Dergi Adı: INFECTION AND DRUG RESISTANCE
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.191-198

Özet

Purpose: Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) have become a global health threat in the last two decades. In this study, we aimed to determine antibiotic resistance using phenotypic and genotypic methods in VRE strains obtained from inpatients and to investigate clonal relatedness among strains.