Results of typing of VRE. (A) Relationships of MLST and MLVA types recovered at the University Hospital of Würzburg within a 5-year period. The founder genotype is located in the center. Single locus and double locus variants are placed in the second and third circles, respectively. (B) Patient numbers (boxes indicate epidemiologically observed clusters of VRE) and results of ST, MT, esp, and hyl analyses. +, positive; −, negative. (C) PFGE gel and dendrogram.