Identification, antimicrobial resistance and genotypic characterization of Enterococcus spp. isolated in Porto Alegre, Brazil Identificação, resistência antimicrobiana e caracterização genotípica de Enterococcus spp. isolados em Porto Alegre, Brasil

In the past two decades the members of the genus Enterococcus have emerged as important nosocomial pathogens worldwide. In the present study, we evaluated the antimicrobial resistance and genotypic characteristics of 203 Enterococcus spp. recovered from different clinical sources from two hospitals...

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Main Authors: Eduardo André Bender, Ana Lúcia Peixoto de Freitas, Keli Cristine Reiter, Larissa Lutz, Afonso Luís Barth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia 2009-09-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822009000300035