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Attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years caused by infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the EU and the European Economic Area in 2015: a population-level modelling analysis
- A. Cassini, L. Högberg, +78 authors S. Hopkins
- Medicine
- The Lancet. Infectious diseases
- 1 January 2019
Summary Background Infections due to antibiotic-resistant bacteria are threatening modern health care. However, estimating their incidence, complications, and attributable mortality is challenging.… Expand
Emergence and spread of vancomycin resistance among enterococci in Europe
- G. Werner, T. Coque, +19 authors N. Woodford
- Biology
- 20 November 2008
Nowadays, six types of acquired vancomycin resistance in enterococci are known; however, only VanA and to a lesser extent VanB are widely prevalent. Various genes encode acquired vancomycin… Expand
Insight into antimicrobial susceptibility and population structure of contemporary human Enterococcus faecalis isolates from Europe.
- A. Kuch, R. Willems, +9 authors E. Sadowy
- Biology, Medicine
- The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
- 1 March 2012
OBJECTIVES
To investigate antimicrobial susceptibility and clonal relatedness of Enterococcus faecalis human isolates recovered recently (2006-09) in six European countries.
METHODS
Antimicrobial… Expand
Heterogeneity in the vanB Gene Cluster of Genomically Diverse Clinical Strains of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci
- K. Dahl, G. Simonsen, Ø. Olsvik, A. Sundsfjord
- Medicine, Biology
- Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
- 1 May 1999
ABSTRACT Molecular analysis of 17 genomically unrelated clinical VanB-type vancomycin-resistant enterococcus isolates from hospital patients in Germany, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the… Expand
Emergence and spread of vancomycin resistance among enterococci in Europe.
- G. Werner, T. Coque, +18 authors N. Woodford
- Biology, Medicine
- Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les…
- 2008
Nowadays, six types of acquired vancomycin resistance in enterococci are known; however, only VanA and to a lesser extent VanB are widely prevalent. Various genes encode acquired vancomycin… Expand
Genetic methods for detection of antimicrobial resistance
- A. Sundsfjord, G. Simonsen, +4 authors K. Dahl
- Biology, Medicine
- APMIS : acta pathologica, microbiologica, et…
- 1 December 2004
Accurate and rapid diagnostic methods are needed to guide antimicrobial therapy and infection control interventions. Advances in real‐time PCR have provided a user‐friendly, rapid and reproducible… Expand
PCR-based plasmid typing in Enterococcus faecium strains reveals widely distributed pRE25-, pRUM-, pIP501- and pHTbeta-related replicons associated with glycopeptide resistance and stabilizing…
- T. Rosvoll, T. Pedersen, +6 authors A. Sundsfjord
- Medicine, Biology
- FEMS immunology and medical microbiology
- 1 March 2010
A PCR-based typing scheme was applied to identify plasmids in an epidemiologically and geographically diverse strain collection of Enterococcus faecium (n=93). Replicon types of pRE25 (n=56), pRUM… Expand
Molecular characterization of CTX‐M‐15‐producing clinical isolates of Escherichia coli reveals the spread of multidrug‐resistant ST131 (O25:H4) and ST964 (O102:H6) strains in Norway
- U. Naseer, B. Haldorsen, +4 authors A. Sundsfjord
- Biology, Medicine
- APMIS : acta pathologica, microbiologica, et…
- 1 July 2009
Nationwide, CTX‐M‐producing clinical Escherichia coli isolates from the Norwegian ESBL study in 2003 (n=45) were characterized on strain and plasmid levels. BlaCTX‐M allele typing, characterization… Expand
Effects of Phenotype and Genotype on Methods for Detection of Extended-Spectrum-β-Lactamase-Producing Clinical Isolates of Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae in Norway
- S. Tofteland, B. Haldorsen, +4 authors A. Sundsfjord
- Biology, Medicine
- Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- 1 November 2006
ABSTRACT Consecutive clinical isolates of Escherichia coli (n = 87) and Klebsiella pneumoniae (n = 25) with reduced susceptibilities to oxyimino-cephalosporins (MICs > 1 mg/liter) from 18 Norwegian… Expand
Species identification and molecular characterization of Acinetobacter spp. blood culture isolates from Norway.
- Nabil Karah, B. Haldorsen, K. Hegstad, G. Simonsen, A. Sundsfjord, Ø. Samuelsen
- Biology, Medicine
- The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
- 1 April 2011
OBJECTIVES
The study investigated the species distribution, antibiotic susceptibility patterns and genotypic resistance characteristics of 113 consecutive blood culture isolates of Acinetobacter… Expand