Nenad Macesic, Hugh Cottingham, Jessica A Wisniewski, Luke V Blakeway, Ravali Theegala, Katherine Pragastis, Andrew Stewardson, Pauline Bass, Megan Gritt, Stephanie Spilsbury, Denise Del Rosario-Kelly, Amanda Dennison, Denis W Spelman, Adam W J Jenney, Anton Y Peleg
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Abstract
We assessed the hospital environment as a reservoir of vancomycin-resistant E. faecium (VRE) and compared environmental VRE isolates to bloodstream infection E. faecium isolates. We identified distinct environmental and patient reservoirs, with the environment dominated by vanB VRE. Environment-clinical reservoir spillover accounted for 292/895 (33%) of putative transmission links.
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