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Identifying carriers of vancomycin-resistant enterococci
This test detects the presence of either vanA or vanB, which confer vancomycin resistance in Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium (and occasionally other organisms).
Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)