Genomic approaches to understand and control the emergence of vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) in Australia.

VRE是一种严重的医院超级细菌，在澳大利亚许多主要医院中一直在增加，同时MRSA(金黄色葡萄球菌)的感染一直在下降。该项目将通过检查澳大利亚一家主要医院的患者从入院到感染VRE的过程中发生的情况，找出VRE增加的原因。在项目结束时，我们将首次真正了解VRE是如何传播的，这样我们就可以制定有效的感染控制措施。

VRE is a serious hospital superbug that has been increasing in many major hospitals around Australia, while at the same time MRSA (Golden Staph) infections have been decreasing. This project will find out why VRE is increasing by examining what happens to patients at a major Australian hospital from their time of admission to the onset of infection with VRE. At the end of the project we will have the first real understanding of how VRE is transmitted so we can develop effective infection control measures.