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From: The current MLVA typing scheme for Enterococcus faecium is less discriminatory than MLST and PFGE for epidemic-virulent, hospital-adapted clonal types

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Cluster analysis of hospital VRE based on Sma I-macrorestriction patterns resolved in PFGE (see also Tab. 1). The dendrogram was evaluated using Dice coefficient and UPMGA clustering (BioNumercis software). Legend: Groups – group I isolates from 1991–1995, group II isolates from 1996–1999, group III isolates from 2004–2006; year, year of isolation; hospital, code for hospital. Only five of all eight group II isolates were shown having all identical or highly related banding patterns (> 95 % identity; see also [30])

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