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Hae-Gyung Bae1, Heungsup Sung, Mi-Na Kim
1Department of Laboratory Medicine, Asan Medical Center and University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
|May 20, 2006
Abstract:
We report the first clinical isolate of linezolid- and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREF) in Korea. The minimum inhibitory concentration of linezolid was in direct proportion to the number of copies of the G2576U mutation according to sequencing and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of the 23S rRNA gene.
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