A change in the molecular epidemiology of vancomycin resistant enterococci in Western Australia

Geoffrey W Coombs1, Denise Daley, Julie C Pearson

  • 11Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, PathWest Laboratory Medicine - WA, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth 2Australian Collaborating Centre for Enterococcus and Staphylococcus Species (ACCESS) Typing and Research, School of Biomedical Sciences, Curtin University, Perth 3Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia.

Pathology
|December 5, 2013
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