Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6129414 | Clinical Microbiology and Infection | 2015 | 21 Pages |
Abstract
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 dissemination. The data of this study may be used as a baseline from which to judge future decreases or increases in optrA-positive enterococci.
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Authors
J. Cai, Y. Wang, S. Schwarz, H. Lv, Y. Li, K. Liao, S. Yu, K. Zhao, D. Gu, X. Wang, R. Zhang, J. Shen,