COVID-19 isolation measures did not prevent vancomycin-resistant enterococci transmissions

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¹ Infection Prevention and Control Unit, Infectious Diseases Service, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address: mathias.van-singer@chuv.ch.
² Infection Prevention and Control Unit, Infectious Diseases Service, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
³ Infection Prevention and Control Unit, Infectious Diseases Service, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; Swiss National Reference Center for Emerging Antibiotic Resistance, (NARA), University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

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M Van Singer et al. J Hosp Infect. 2023 Nov.

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. 2023 Nov:141:129-131.

doi: 10.1016/j.jhin.2023.09.014. Epub 2023 Sep 27.

¹ Infection Prevention and Control Unit, Infectious Diseases Service, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address: mathias.van-singer@chuv.ch.
² Infection Prevention and Control Unit, Infectious Diseases Service, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
³ Infection Prevention and Control Unit, Infectious Diseases Service, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; Swiss National Reference Center for Emerging Antibiotic Resistance, (NARA), University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Keywords: COVID-19; PPE; VRE; contact precautions; wgMLST.

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