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Getting to Know Superbugs: VRE
Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) are a type of bacteria called enterococci that have developed resistance to many antibiotics, especially vancomycin. Enterococci bacteria live in our intestines and on our skin, usually without causing problems.VRE can also live in the female genital tract without causing disease (often called colonization). However, sometimes it
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