Prevalence of vancomycin-variable Enterococcus faecium (VVE) among vanA-positive sterile site isolates and patient factors associated with VVE bacteremia

• Philipp Kohler ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: philipp.kohler@kssg.ch

  Affiliations Microbiology Department, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Clinic for Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0427-8934

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• Alireza Eshaghi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Public Health Ontario, Public Health Ontario Laboratory, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Hyunjin C. Kim,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Microbiology Department, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Agron Plevneshi,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Microbiology Department, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Karen Green,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Microbiology Department, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Barbara M. Willey,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Microbiology Department, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Allison McGeer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Microbiology Department, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Samir N. Patel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Public Health Ontario Laboratory, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• for the Toronto Invasive Bacterial Diseases Network (TIBDN)

  ¶Membership of the Toronto Invasive Bacterial Diseases Network is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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