Novais Carla, Sousa João C, Coque Teresa M, Peixe Luísa V
REQUIMTE, Laboratório de Microbiologia, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade do Porto, Rua Aníbal Cunha, 164, 4050-030 Porto, Portugal.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2005 Jul;49(7):3073-9. doi: 10.1128/AAC.49.7.3073-3079.2005.
Fifty-one pulsed-field gel electrophoresis types and 17 Tn1546 variants were identified among 101 Enterococcus faecium isolates recovered in three distant Portuguese hospitals. Intra- and interhospital dissemination of specific strains and Tn1546 types was detected, which might largely contribute to the endemicity of vancomycin-resistant E. faecium in Portuguese hospitals, as happened previously in other geographical locations.
在葡萄牙三个相距甚远的医院收集的101株粪肠球菌分离株中,鉴定出51种脉冲场凝胶电泳类型和17种Tn1546变体。检测到特定菌株和Tn1546类型在医院内和医院间的传播,这可能在很大程度上导致了耐万古霉素粪肠球菌在葡萄牙医院的地方性流行,就像之前在其他地理位置发生的那样。