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VANCOMYCIN-RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCI
Clinics in Podiatric Medicine and Surgery, 1996The enterococcus has emerged as one of the most important nosocomial pathogens: an organism with the ability to develop resistance to all available antibiotics. This article details the historic significance of the enterococcus and delineates the clinical presentations and therapeutic options for the clinician.
K, Thakor, A E, Glatt
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Vancomycin-resistant enterococci
The American Journal of Medicine, 1997Enterococci have been recognized as an important cause of nosocomial infections for almost 20 years and as a cause of endocarditis for almost a century. While long known for their capacity of displaying multiple antibiotic resistant traits, the extent to which this could occur was not fully appreciated until the emergence of enterococci with acquired ...
S M, Palmer, M J, Rybak
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VANCOMYCIN-RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCI
The Lancet, 1988Enterococci, a part of normal gut flora, are not particularly pathogenic organisms in humans. For example, they do not cause respiratory tract infections. The most frequent enterococcal infections are urinary tract infections. Despite their lack of pathogenicity, enterococci have emerged as significant nosocomial pathogens in the United States and ...
A H, Uttley +3 more
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Vancomycin-resistant enterococci.
Postgraduate medicinePreview New antimicrobial pathogens resistant to vancomycin are wreaking havoc in medical centers throughout the nation. Their tendency to colonize or infect severely ill, hospitalized patients who have undergone invasive procedures and received prolonged courses of antimicrobial therapy is alarming.
Heidi M, Hagman, Larry J, Strausbaugh
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Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci
Critical Care Clinics, 2013Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) consist mainly of Enterococcus faecalis and E faecium, the latter mostly hospital-acquired. In addition, E gallinarum and E casseliflavus are intrinsically vancomycin-resistant and are community-acquired. VRE have become common in many hospitals throughout the world and, once established, are very difficult to ...
Ethan, Rubinstein, Yoav, Keynan
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Vancomycin-resistant Enterococci in Neonates
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2001Fecal-oral transmission of vancomycin-resistant strains of Enterococci (VRE), which colonize the human gastrointestinal tract, has led to nosocomial epidemics in recent years. The aim of this study was to establish the incidence and associated factors of fecal colonization with VRE in neonates. In our hospital 110 rectal swab specimens collected in the
Yuce, A, Yulug, N, Gulay, Z, Karaman, M
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Controlling Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 1995Abstract After controlling an epidemic of vanB -type vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE), we contained a subsequent vanA E faecium outbreak by using prospective laboratory-based ...
J M, Boyce +6 more
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Approaches to vancomycin-resistant enterococci
Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases, 2004This article reviews recent publications regarding new antimicrobial drugs for the treatment of vancomycin-resistant enterococci.Newer drugs against vancomycin-resistant enterococci are now available or will soon be available. Quinupristin-dalfopristin, a streptogramin, and linezolid, an oxazolidinone, are effective and safe but only bacteriostatic ...
Carlos, Torres-Viera +1 more
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