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. 2006 Sep;27(9):991-3.
doi: 10.1086/507289. Epub 2006 Aug 22.

First outbreak of colonization and infection with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a tertiary care hospital in Singapore

Maciej Piotr Chlebicki  1 , Moi Lin Ling, Tse Hsien Koh, Li Yang Hsu, Ban Hock Tan, Kue Bien How, Li-Hwei Sng, Grace Chee Yeng Wang, Asok Kurup, Mei Ling Kang, Jenny Guek Hong Low
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First outbreak of colonization and infection with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a tertiary care hospital in Singapore

Maciej Piotr Chlebicki et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2006 Sep.

Abstract

We report the first outbreak of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium colonization and infection among inpatients in the hematology ward of an acute tertiary care public hospital in Singapore. Two cases of bacteremia and 4 cases of gastrointestinal carriage were uncovered before implementation of strict infection control measures resulted in control of the outbreak.

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