The changing epidemiology of bacteraemias in Europe : trends from the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System
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...aureus isolates represent 29 percent of all reported bacterial isolates in Europe, and an estimated 72,444 cases of invasive MRSA infections occurred in the United States in 2014 [7-9]....
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...Enterococci have become one of the most common causes of health care-associated infections with E. faecalis causing approximately 60% of infections and E. faecium the remainder (de Kraker et al., 2013; Sievert et al., 2013)....
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...However, trends may have also been reversed as a result of the successful implementation of extensive infection control programmes, like those specifically aimed at reducing the incidence of MRSA in UK [25,26] and French [27] hospitals....
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...It has been suggested that, more than 23 000 people died of Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli bacteraemias in Europe in 2007 alone [1]....
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