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A European laboratory network for sequence-based typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) as a communication platform between human and veterinary medicine--an update on SeqNet.org

scientific article published on 8 May 2008

A database System for Fragment Patterns of Genomic DNA of Staphylococcus aureus ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 1998

A genomic portrait of the emergence, evolution, and global spread of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pandemic

scientific article

A multiresistance megaplasmid pLG1 bearing a hylEfm genomic island in hospital Enterococcus faecium isolates

scientific article published on 15 October 2010

A timescale for evolution, population expansion, and spatial spread of an emerging clone of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article (publication date: 8 April 2010)

Absence of Livestock-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Clonal Complex CC398 as a Nasal Colonizer of Pigs Raised in an Alternative System ⬇️

scientific article published on December 9, 2011

Acquired vancomycin resistance in clinically relevant pathogens

scientific article published on October 2008

Aminoglycoside-streptothricin resistance gene cluster aadE-sat4-aphA-3 disseminated among multiresistant isolates of Enterococcus faecium

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Analysis of nosocomial outbreaks with multiply and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Germany: implications for hospital hygiene.

scientific article

Antibiotic resistance and molecular epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus in Nigeria

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Antimicrobial susceptibilities of Lactobacillus, Pediococcus and Lactococcus human isolates and cultures intended for probiotic or nutritional use

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Are there regional variations in the diagnosis, surveillance, and control of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus?

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Assignment of Staphylococcus isolates to groups by spa typing, SmaI macrorestriction analysis, and multilocus sequence typing

scientific article published on July 2006

Association between quinupristin/dalfopristin resistance in glycopeptide-resistantEnterococcus faecium and the use of additives in animal feed ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 1998

Bactericidal activity of tyrothricin against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with reduced susceptibility to mupirocin

scientific article published on 01 March 1996

Cell surface hydrophobicity and adherence to extra-cellular matrix proteins in two collections of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on April 1994

Changing pattern of antibiotic resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from German hospitals

scientific article published in November 2001

Characteristics of a new epidemic MRSA in Germany ancestral to United Kingdom EMRSA 15.

scientific article published in March 2001

Characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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Characterization of two different clusters of clonally related methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains by conventional and molecular typing.

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Clinical significance and spread of fluoroquinolone resistant uropathogens in hospitalised urological patients.

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Clonal analysis of Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates carrying or lacking biofilm-mediating genes by multilocus sequence typing

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Clonal distribution of superantigen genes in clinical Staphylococcus aureus isolates

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Clusters of infections in horses with MRSA ST1, ST254, and ST398 in a veterinary hospital

scientific article published in December 2008

Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: what do we need to know?

scientific article published on December 2009

Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST8 ("USA300") in an HIV-positive patient in Cologne, Germany, February 2008.

scientific article published on 27 March 2008

Comparative Secretome Analyses of Human and Zoonotic Isolates CC8, CC22, and CC398

scientific article published on 10 September 2018

Comparison of direct cultivation on a selective solid medium, polymerase chain reaction from an enrichment broth, and the BD GeneOhm™ VanR Assay for identification of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in screening specimens

scientific article published in August 2011

Complete genome sequence of the porcine isolate Enterococcus faecalis D32.

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Comprehensive molecular, genomic and phenotypic analysis of a major clone of Enterococcus faecalis MLST ST40.

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Conjugative transfer of the virulence gene, esp, among isolates of Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis

scientific article published on 10 June 2004

Current data and trends on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2012

DNA microarray for detection of antibiotic resistance determinants in Bacillus anthracis and closely related Bacillus cereus.

scientific article

DNA microarray for the detection of therapeutically relevant antibiotic resistance determinants in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 19 October 2006

Detection of low-level oxacillin resistance in mecA-positive Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 01 April 2007

Detection of mutations conferring resistance to linezolid in Enterococcus spp. by fluorescence in situ hybridization

scientific article published on 2 May 2007

Detection of oxacillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus by screening tests

scientific article published on 01 November 1999

Differentiation of methicillin-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus by prophage specificity

scientific article published on October 1, 1991

Direct detection and genotyping of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemases from urine by use of a new DNA microarray test

scientific article

Effect of prophages on transfer frequency of conjugative plasmid G 873

scientific article published on October 1, 1991

Effect of subinhibitory antibiotic concentrations on polysaccharide intercellular adhesin expression in biofilm-forming Staphylococcus epidermidis

scientific article published on December 2000

Emergence and Spread of cfr -Mediated Multiresistance in Staphylococci: An Interdisciplinary Challenge ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 2011

Emergence and spread of antibiotic-resistant Gram-positive bacterial pathogens

scientific article published on 05 March 2008

Emergence and spread of vancomycin resistance among enterococci in Europe

scientific article

Emergence of MRSA infections in horses in a veterinary hospital: strain characterisation and comparison with MRSA from humans.

scientific article published in January 2006

Emergence of OXA-48-type carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in German hospitals

scientific article published on 30 January 2012

Emergence of a new community acquired MRSA strain in Germany

scientific article published in January 2004

Emergence of carbapenem-non-susceptible extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates at the university hospital of Tübingen, Germany

scientific article

Emergence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in different animal species.

scientific article published on 16 December 2009

Emergence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes in central Europe

scientific article published in January 2005

Epidemiological analysis of the spread of pathogens from a urological ward using genotypic, phenotypic and clinical parameters

scientific article published on 01 June 2002

Epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus Nasal Carriage Patterns in the Community

scientific article published on 2 July 2016

Erratum to ‘Serial home-based self-collection of anterior nasal swabs to detect Staphylococcus aureus carriage in a randomized population-based study in Germany’

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Evaluation of adding a second marker to overcome Staphylococcus aureus spa typing homoplasies

scientific article published on 18 January 2012

Evaluation of molecular typing methods in characterizing a European collection of epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains: the HARMONY collection

scientific article published on 11 April 2007

Evaluation of new broth media for microdilution antibiotic susceptibility testing of Lactobacilli, Pediococci, Lactococci, and Bifidobacteria.

scientific article published on December 2005

Evidence for Human Adaptation and Foodborne Transmission of Livestock-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 20 September 2016

Evolution of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus towards increasing resistance

scientific article published on 22 October 2013

Fluoroquinolone resistance and Clostridium difficile, Germany

scientific article published on April 2010

Frequent emergence and limited geographic dispersal of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scholarly article

From types to trees: Reconstructing the spatial spread of Staphylococcus aureus based on DNA variation ⬇️

scientific article published on 08 October 2011

Genetic characterization of Panton–Valentine leukocidin-producing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Western Austria ⬇️

scientific article published on September 28, 2012

Genotypic diversity, antimicrobial resistance, and virulence factors of human isolates and probiotic cultures constituting two intraspecific groups of Enterococcus faecium isolates

scientific article published on 16 May 2008

Harmonization of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis protocols for epidemiological typing of strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a single approach developed by consensus in 10 European laboratories and its application for tracing th

scientific article

Healthcare-associated outbreaks and community-acquired infections due to MRSA carrying the Panton-Valentine leucocidin gene in southeastern Germany

scientific article published in June 2005

High interlaboratory reproducibility of DNA sequence-based typing of bacteria in a multicenter study

scientific article

High-level ciprofloxacin resistance among hospital-adapted Enterococcus faecium (CC17).

scientific article published on 16 December 2009

Host range of enterococcal vanA plasmids among Gram-positive intestinal bacteria.

scientific article

How many infections are caused by patient-to-patient transmission in intensive care units?

scientific article

IS element IS16 as a molecular screening tool to identify hospital-associated strains of Enterococcus faecium

scientific article

Identification of enterococci and determination of their glycopeptide resistance in German and Austrian clinical microbiology laboratories.

scientific article

Identification of specific genes in Staphylococcus aureus strains associated with bovine mastitis.

scientific article published on 27 March 2010

Impact of antibiotics on conjugational resistance gene transfer in Staphylococcus aureus in sewage

scientific article published in August 2003

Impact of bacteriophage Saint3 carriage on the immune evasion capacity and hemolytic potential of Staphylococcus aureus CC398.

scientific article published on 23 February 2016

Impact of flavophospholipol and vancomycin on conjugational transfer of vancomycin resistance plasmids

scientific article published on November 2000

Importance of the spread of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in fattened pigs for humans?

scientific article published in June 2008

In vitro activity of daptomycin versus linezolid and vancomycin against gram-positive uropathogens and ampicillin against enterococci, causing complicated urinary tract infections

scientific article published on 4 May 2005

Incidence of transmission of pathogens in intensive care units. Results of the SIR 3 study

scientific article published in June 2005

Increasing incidence and widespread dissemination of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in hospitals in central Europe, with special reference to German hospitals

scientific article (publication date: August 1997)

Increasing rates of vancomycin resistance among Enterococcus faecium isolated from German hospitals between 2004 and 2006 are due to wide clonal dissemination of vancomycin-resistant enterococci and horizontal spread of vanA clusters

scientific article published on 30 October 2007

Infectivity-resistotype-genotype clustering of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains in the Central Blacksea Region of Turkey

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Influence of transferable genetic determinants on the outcome of typing methods commonly used for Enterococcus faecium

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Insertion of host DNA into PVL-encoding phages of the Staphylococcus aureus lineage ST80 by intra-chromosomal recombination.

scientific article published on 13 August 2010

Insufficient discriminatory power of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry for typing of Enterococcus faecium and Staphylococcus aureus isolates

scientific article

Intercenter reproducibility of binary typing for Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

International dissemination of antibiotic resistant strains of bacterial pathogens

scientific article

Intra- and interspecies genomic transfer of the Enterococcus faecalis pathogenicity island.

scientific article

Intra-hospital dissemination of quinupristin/dalfopristin- and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a paediatric ward of a German hospital

scientific article

Is there an association between nosocomial infection rates and bacterial cross transmissions?

scientific article published in January 2010

Laboratory tools and strategies for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus screening, surveillance and typing: state of the art and unmet needs

scientific article published on February 2009

Linkage of erm(B) and aadE-sat4-aphA-3 in multiple-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolates of different ecological origins

scientific article published in January 2003

Livestock associated MRSA (LA-MRSA) and its relevance for humans in Germany

scientific article published on 20 April 2013

Livestock-Associated MRSA: The Impact on Humans

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MRSA in equine hospitals and its significance for infections in humans

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MRSA transmission on a neonatal intensive care unit: epidemiological and genome-based phylogenetic analyses

scientific article

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in German hospitals develop narrower patterns of antimicrobial resistance

scientific article published on 01 March 2000

Methicillin susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) of clonal complex CC398, t571 from infections in humans are still rare in Germany

scientific article

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): burden of disease and control challenges in Europe.

scientific article published on 14 October 2010

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 in humans and animals, Central Europe

scientific article published on February 2007

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus containing the Panton-Valentine leucocidin gene in Germany in 2005 and 2006.

scientific article published on 13 October 2007

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from infections in horses in Germany are frequent colonizers of veterinarians but rare among MRSA from infections in humans

scientific article

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Europe, 1999-2002

scientific article published in September 2004

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus--the pathogen

scientific article published in January 2001

Methicillin-resistant and -susceptible Staphylococcus aureus strains of clonal lineages ST398 and ST9 from swine carry the multidrug resistance gene cfr

scientific article published on December 2008

Methicillin-resistant, quinupristin-dalfopristin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with reduced sensitivity to glycopeptides

scientific article published on October 2001

Methicillin-sensitive and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage in a random sample of non-hospitalized adult population in northern Germany

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Molecular Epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus in the General Population in Northeast Germany: Results of the Study of Health in Pomerania (SHIP-TREND-0)

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Molecular analysis of streptogramin resistance in enterococci

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Molecular characterization of blaNDM-1 in an Acinetobacter baumannii strain isolated in Germany in 2007.

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Molecular characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains from pet animals and their relationship to human isolates

scientific article published on 30 December 2005

Molecular detection of linezolid resistance in Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis by use of 5' nuclease real-time PCR compared to a modified classical approach

scientific article published on November 2004

Molecular ecological studies on spread of antibiotic resistance genes

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Molecular epidemiology of hospital-acquired vancomycin-resistant enterococci

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Multicenter evaluation of epidemiological typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains by repetitive-element PCR analysis. The European Study Group on Epidemiological Markers of the ESCMID.

scientific article

Multiplex PCR assay for simultaneous detection of nine clinically relevant antibiotic resistance genes in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published in September 2003

Multiplex PCR for rapid detection of Staphylococcus aureus isolates suspected to represent community-acquired strains

scientific article

Multiplexed genotyping of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates by use of padlock probes and tag microarrays

scientific article published on 21 January 2009

NDM-1-producing Escherichia coli in Germany

scientific article published on 28 December 2010

Nasal Colonization of Humans with Occupational Exposure to Raw Meat and to Raw Meat Products with Methicillin-Susceptible and Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 30 March 2019

Nasal colonization of humans with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) CC398 with and without exposure to pigs

scientific article

New strains of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with Panton-Valentine leukocidin causing an outbreak of severe soft tissue infection in a football team.

scientific article

Nonhuman Reservoirs of Enterococci

Nosocomial infections due to Serratia marcescens--clinical findings, antibiotic susceptibility patterns and fine typing

scientific article published in September 1989

Obvious lack of association between dynamics of epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in central Europe and agr specificity groups

scientific article

Occurrence and spread of antibiotic resistances in Enterococcus faecium ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 2003

Occurrence of antibiotic-resistant enterobacteria in agricultural foodstuffs

scientific article published in December 2004

Occurrence of cfr-mediated multiresistance in staphylococci from veal calves and pigs, from humans at the corresponding farms, and from veterinarians and their family members

scientific article published on 6 April 2016

Occurrence of the USA300 community-acquired Staphylococcus aureus clone in Austria.

scientific article published on 25 October 2007

Outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a German tertiary-care hospital

scientific article published on 01 May 1999

PCR for the identification of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains using a single primer pair specific for SCCmec elements and the neighbouring chromosome-borne orfX.

scientific article

Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Germany associated with travel or foreign family origin.

scientific article published in September 2005

Performance of three chromogenic VRE screening agars, two Etest® vancomycin protocols, and different microdilution methods in detecting vanB genotype Enterococcus faecium with varying vancomycin MICs ⬇️

scientific article published on August 15, 2012

Persistence of nasal colonisation with methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus CC398 among participants of veterinary conferences and occurrence among their household members: A prospective cohort study, Germany 2008-2014.

scientific article published on 26 March 2016

Phylogenetic analysis of Staphylococcus aureus CC398 reveals a sub-lineage epidemiologically associated with infections in horses

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Population structure of Francisella tularensis

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Prevalence and molecular characteristics of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) among pigs on German farms and import of livestock-related MRSA into hospitals.

scientific article published on 25 August 2009

Prevalence of the immune evasion gene cluster in Staphylococcus aureus CC398.

scientific article published on 6 March 2015

Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of genomic restriction fragments as a tool for the epidemiological analysis of Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci

scientific article published on August 15, 1992

Rare Occurrence of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus CC130 with a Novel mecA Homologue in Humans in Germany ⬇️

scientific article published on September 8, 2011

Resistance monitoring of human pathogenic bacteria in Germany, SWOT analysis and examples.

scientific article published in June 2006

Resistance to cephalosporins and carbapenems in Gram-negative bacterial pathogens

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Selective pressure by antibiotic use in livestock

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Sensitivity to mupirocin of staphylococci isolated from colonized or infected patients in Germany

scientific article published on 01 June 1993

SeqNet.org: a European laboratory network for sequence-based typing of microbial pathogens

scientific article published on 12 January 2006

Serial home-based self-collection of anterior nasal swabs to detect Staphylococcus aureus carriage in a randomized population-based study in Germany

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Serial home-based self-collection of anterior nasal swabs to detect Staphylococcus aureus carriage in a randomized population-based study in Germany

scientific article published on 09 May 2014

Sharing more than friendship--nasal colonization with coagulase-positive staphylococci (CPS) and co-habitation aspects of dogs and their owners

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Silence as a way of niche adaptation: mecC-MRSA with variations in the accessory gene regulator (agr) functionality express kaleidoscopic phenotypes

scientific article published on 08 September 2020

Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Genotyping Identifies a Locally Endemic Clone of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus ⬇️

scientific article published on March 9, 2012

Stability of genomic DNA fragment patterns in methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) during the course of intra- and interhospital spread ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 1994

Staphylococcus aureus in dermatology outpatients with special emphasis on community-associated methicillin-resistant strains

scientific article published on 3 July 2008

State-wide surveillance of antibiotic resistance patterns and spa types of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from blood cultures in North Rhine-Westphalia, 2011-2013.

scientific article published on 20 February 2015

Subpopulations of Staphylococcus aureus clonal complex 121 are associated with distinct clinical entities

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Successful termination of a furunculosis outbreak due to lukS-lukF-positive, methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus in a German village by stringent decolonization, 2002-2005

scientific article published on 25 April 2007

Surface-associated motility, a common trait of clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii, depends on 1,3-diaminopropane

scientific article published on 3 May 2012

Survey of antibiotic resistance among enterococci in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Systematic literature analysis and review of targeted preventive measures to limit healthcare-associated infections by meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

scientific article published on 24 July 2014

Tackling antibiotic resistance

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The ability of the Dry Spot Staphytect Plus test, in comparison with other tests, to identify Staphylococcus species, in particular S. aureus

scientific article published on 01 February 1999

The current MLVA typing scheme for Enterococcus faecium is less discriminatory than MLST and PFGE for epidemic-virulent, hospital-adapted clonal types

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The impact of zoonotic MRSA colonization and infection in Germany

scientific article published on September 2014

Therapy-refractory Panton Valentine Leukocidin-positive community-acquired methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus sepsis with progressive metastatic soft tissue infection: a case report

scientific article published on 3 December 2007

Tigecycline-resistant Enterococcus faecalis strain isolated from a German intensive care unit patient

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Transcription of the phage-encoded Panton-Valentine leukocidin of Staphylococcus aureus is dependent on the phage life-cycle and on the host background.

scientific article published on 6 August 2009

Two clones of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Poland

scientific article published in April 1997

Typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a university hospital setting by using novel software for spa repeat determination and database management

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Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). Recent results and trends in development of antibiotic resistance ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 November 2012

Vancomycin-resistant vanB-type Enterococcus faecium isolates expressing varying levels of vancomycin resistance and being highly prevalent among neonatal patients in a single ICU

scientific article published on 30 May 2012

Veterinarians Visiting Swine Farms Are at High Risk for Colonization With Livestock-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

scientific article published on 3 September 2015

Widespread dissemination of epidemic MRSA in German hospitals

scientific article published on 01 April 1997

[Antibiotic-resistant nosocomial pathogens. Part I: diagnostic and typing methods].

scientific article

[Tasks, current problems and perspectives of hospital hygiene]

scientific article published on 01 April 2004

vanA-mediated high-level glycopeptide resistance in Enterococcus faecium from animal husbandry

scientific article published on 01 January 1995

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