In Chile, as in other countries, strategies should be implemented to improve detection of these strains, including improvement of phenotypical and genotypical methods for VRE detection and species identification.

McLendon's study would have been more valuable had she chosen to interrogate this and other non-literary representations of the mulatto (which are and are not color-coded, as McLendon tries to point out in her narrative when she speaks problematically, if inventively of the phenotypical mulatto with straight hair and light skin and a genotypical mulatto who has one black and one white parent).