@article{3093477,
    title = "First cluster of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis isolates in
Cyprus",
    author = "Daikos, GL and Triantafyllopoulou, P and Syriopoulou, V and and Bakatzouni-Pieridou, D and Kontou, M and Theodoulou, M and Tofas, P and and Petrikkos, G",
    journal = "Clinical Microbiology and Infection",
    year = "2005",
    volume = "11",
    number = "3",
    pages = "232-234",
    publisher = "Elsevier Sci Ltd, Exeter, United Kingdom",
    issn = "1198-743X",
    doi = "10.1111/j.1469-0691.2004.01069.x",
    keywords = "Cyprus; Enterococcus faecalis; glycopeptide resistance; resistance;
vanA; vancomycin resistance",
    abstract = "This report describes the first patient in Cyprus to be infected with a
vancomycin-resistant enterococcus, as well as the microbiological
characteristics of a cluster of vancomycin-resistant enterococcus
isolates from the intensive care unit where the index case was
hospitalised. All isolates were identified as Enterococcus faecalis,
belonged to the same clone, and contained the vanA gene cluster.
Transfer of glycopeptide resistance to a susceptible strain of E.
faecalis could not be detected."
}