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ArticleEuro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin2022

Nosocomial outbreak of vancomycin-resistant

Vanja Piezzi, Nasstasja Wassilew, Andrew Atkinson, Stéphanie D'Incau, Tanja Kaspar, Helena Mb Seth-Smith, Carlo Casanova, Pascal Bittel, Philipp Jent, Rami Sommerstein and 2 more

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Article in Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Vanja PiezziDepartment of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Nasstasja WassilewDepartment of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Andrew AtkinsonDepartment of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Stéphanie D'IncauDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Lucerne Cantonal Hospital, Lucerne, Switzerland.
Tanja KasparDepartment of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Helena Mb Seth-SmithInstitute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Carlo CasanovaInstitute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Pascal BittelInstitute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Philipp JentDepartment of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Rami SommersteinDepartment Health Sciences and Medicine, Clinic St. Anna, University of Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland.
Niccolò BuettiINSERM, IAME, Université Paris-Cité, Paris, France.
Jonas MarschallDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States.
University of Bern · CHUniversity of Basel · CHUniversity of Geneva · CHUniversity of Lucerne · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A large clonal outbreak caused by vancomycin-resistant

Indexed as

Cross InfectionEnterococcus faeciumGram-Positive Bacterial InfectionsVancomycin-Resistant EnterococciDisease OutbreaksHospitals, UniversityHumansSwitzerlandVancomycinVancomycinantibiotic resistanceinfection prevention and controlnosocomial outbreakoutbreak managementVancomycin resistant Enterococcus faeciumVREWhole genome sequencing

Identifiers

PMID36695463
PMCPMC9716646
OpenAlexW4311111782

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