Individual variability in finger-to-finger transmission efficiency of Enterococcus faecium clones

A fingertip-to-fingertip intraindividual transmission experiment was carried out in 30 healthy volunteers, using four MLST-typed Enterococcus faecium clones. Overall results showed an adequate fit goodness to a theoretical exponential model, whereas four volunteers (13%) exhibited a significantly hi...

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Main Authors: del Campo, Rosa, Sánchez-Díaz, Ana María, Zamora, Javier, Torres, Carmen, Cintas, Luis María, Franco, Elvira, Cantón, Rafael, Baquero, Fernando
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: John Wiley & Sons Ltd 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3937735/