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Wound infection and colonization following cardiac surgery is well known but rarely caused by vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). A case of femoral wound colonization by vanA carrying Enterococcus faecalis in a patient following mitral prolapse surgery is described in this report.
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Dombrádi, Z., Bodnár, F., Orosi, P. et al. A case report of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis colonization of a femoral wound in central europe. cent.eur.j.med 4, 259–261 (2009). https://doi.org/10.2478/s11536-009-0008-7
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