A Multicentre Hospital Outbreak in Sweden Caused by Introduction of a vanB2 Transposon into a Stably Maintained pRUM-Plasmid in an Enterococcus faecium ST192 Clone

• Audun Sivertsen,

  Affiliation Research group for Host-Microbe Interactions, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

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• Hanna Billström,

  Affiliation Unit for antibiotics and infection control, the Public Health Agency of Sweden, Solna, Sweden

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• Öjar Melefors,

  Affiliation Unit for antibiotics and infection control, the Public Health Agency of Sweden, Solna, Sweden

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• Barbro Olsson Liljequist,

  Affiliation Unit for antibiotics and infection control, the Public Health Agency of Sweden, Solna, Sweden

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• Karin Tegmark Wisell,

  Affiliation Unit for antibiotics and infection control, the Public Health Agency of Sweden, Solna, Sweden

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• Måns Ullberg,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden

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• Volkan Özenci,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden

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• Arnfinn Sundsfjord,

  Affiliations Research group for Host-Microbe Interactions, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Detection of Antimicrobial Resistance, Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of North-Norway, Tromsø, Norway

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• Kristin Hegstad

  * E-mail: Kristin.Hegstad@uit.no

  Affiliations Research group for Host-Microbe Interactions, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Detection of Antimicrobial Resistance, Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of North-Norway, Tromsø, Norway

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