National Surveillance on Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium in Taiwan: Emergence and Widespread of ST414 and a Tn1546-Like Element with Simultaneous Insertion of IS1251-like and IS1678

• An-Jing Kuo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: An-Jing Kuo, Lin-Hui Su

  Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC, Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC

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• Lin-Hui Su ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: An-Jing Kuo, Lin-Hui Su

  Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC, Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC

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• Jwu-Ching Shu,

  Affiliations Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC, Research Center for Pathogenic Bacteria, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC

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• Jann-Tay Wang,

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

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• Jen-Hsien Wang,

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC

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• Chang-Phone Fung,

  Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, National Yan-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

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• Ju-Hsin Chia,

  Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC, Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC

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• Jang-Jih Lu,

  Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC, Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC

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• Tsu-Lan Wu

  * E-mail: wutsulan@adm.cgmh.org.tw

  Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC, Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC

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