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Increasing tolerance of hospital Enterococcus faecium to handwash alcohols

2018; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Volume: 10; Issue: 452 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1126/scitranslmed.aar6115

ISSN

1946-6242

Autores

Sacha J. Pidot, Wei Gao, Andrew H. Buultjens, Ian R. Monk, Romain Guérillot, Glen P. Carter, Jean Lee, Margaret M. C. Lam, M. Lindsay Grayson, Susan A. Ballard, Andrew A. Mahony, Elizabeth A. Grabsch, Despina Kotsanas, Tony M. Korman, Geoffrey W. Coombs, James O. Robinson, Anders Gonçalves da Silva, Torsten Seemann, Benjamin P. Howden, Paul D. R. Johnson, Timothy P. Stinear,

Tópico(s)

Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria

Resumo

The multidrug-resistant bacterium Enterococcus faecium has become increasingly tolerant to the alcohols in hospital disinfectants.

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