Abstract:The increased incidence of infections by vancomycin-resistant Entero-coccus (VRE) causes an accumulation of patients who are either colonized with VRE or flagged as potentially colonized with VRE. Since such patients require precautionary isolation upon admission to a hospital, rapid methods to establish VRE coloniza-tion status would improve patient care and optimize hospital operation. We evaluated van quantitative PCR (qPCR) on one enrichment broth as a VRE-screening approach. We obtained 255 sets of five r… Show more
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