Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus
Automated Ribotyping of Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus faecium Isolates
... Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREF) strains represent an important threat in hospital infec- tions in the United States and are found at high frequencies in both the community and farm ...
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Gut colonization with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus and risk for subsequent enteric infection
... why Enterococcus, while not a particularly virulent gut patho- gen in isolation, is associated with all-cause infection and mortality [2, 9, ...without vancomycin resistant Enterococcus ...
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Evaluation of a Novel Chromogenic Agar Medium for Isolation and Differentiation of Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis Isolates
... either vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium or Enterococcus faecalis, based on distinct colony ...of vancomycin-resistant E. faecalis and 4 isolates of ...
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Natural history of colonization with methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin resistant Enterococcus(VRE): a systematic review
... and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) are endemic in hospital settings and long-term care facilities (LTCF), and the prevalence of colonization is increasing ...
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Emergence of an Australian-like pstS-null vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium clone in Scotland
... of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) with a missing MLST locus (pstS) have recently emerged in Australia, with a few cases also reported in ...
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DNA Banding Pattern Polymorphism in Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus faecium and Criteria for Defining Strains
... The degree of DNA banding pattern polymorphism exhibited by vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREM) strains isolated on a renal unit over an 11-month period was investigated. Thirty VREM ...
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Predictors for vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium transforming from colonization to infection: a case control study
... AIC: The Akaike information criterion; aOR: Adjusted odds ratio; CC: Clonal complex; CI: Confidence interval; CP: Concordant pulsotypes; CVC: Central venous catheter; DP: Discordant pulsotypes; ICU: Intensive care unit; ...
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Automatic Digital Analysis of Chromogenic Media for Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus Screens Using Copan WASPLab
... genus Enterococcus are commensal colonizers of the gastrointestinal tract but can cause a variety of serious nosocomial infections, including bacteremia, endocarditis, intra- abdominal and pelvic infections, ...
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Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus faecium Strain Carrying the vanB2 Gene Variant in a Polish Hospital
... of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREM) in Poland, the first VREM strains with the VanB phenotype have emerged independently in two different Warsaw ...in ...
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Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus faecalis Endocarditis: Linezolid Failure and Strain Characterization of Virulence Factors
... of vancomycin- resistant enterococci in most tertiary-care and other health care settings, infective endocarditis due to these organisms has been reported in only a limited number of cases ...
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Epidemiology of a Dominant Clonal Strain of Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus faecium at Separate Hospitals in Boston, Massachusetts
... whom vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium was isolated from a clinical specimen from December 1993 (the month that VRE were first identified at BWH) through September ...
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Clonal dissemination and colony morphotype variation of vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium isolates in metropolitan Detroit, Michigan
... of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) recovered from 25 patients hospi- talized at six hospitals in the metropolitan Detroit, ...
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A Study of Scanning Electron Microscope of Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus faecalis from Clinical Isolates
... Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis pose an emerging health risk, but little is known about the precise epide- miology for vancomycin ...glycopeptide resistant was studied using ...
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Global variances in infection control practices for vancomycin resistant Enterococcus – results of an electronic survey
... Vancomycin resistant Enterococcus (VRE) emerged inter- nationally through the 1990’ s. Prevalences today vary widely, with between 0 and 45 % of E. faecium isolates demonstrating glycopeptide ...
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Decolonization of gastrointestinal carriage of vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium: case series and review of literature
... Adjunctive infection control measures are essential to prevent re-acquisition of VRE from patients’ skin and hos- pital environment during the process of decolonization. Preparation of 4% chlorhexidine gluconate bath and ...
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Characterization of Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus faecium Isolated from Swine in Three Michigan Counties
... of vancomycin. Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREF) was isolated from six pigs but not from humans or any animal other than ...to vancomycin of >256 g/ml and contained ...
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Emergence of Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus faecium at an Australian Hospital: A Whole Genome Sequencing Analysis
... in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) isolation was detected at the Royal Hobart Hospital, ...specific vancomycin-resistance locus ...vanB vancomycin-resistance locus, ...
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Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium sequence type 796 - rapid international dissemination of a new epidemic clone
... Background: Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) is a leading cause of hospital-acquired infections. New, presumably better-adapted strains of VRE appear unpredictably; it is uncertain how ...
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Whole Genome Sequencing of Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus Faecium Isolated from Saudi Arabia
... of 26-E. faecium isolates (including a single VRE) was performed. The antibiotic susceptibility revealed that 99%, 90%, 83% and 73% of the E. faecium isolates were resistant to Clindamycin, Gentamicin, and ...
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Emergence of linezolid- and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a department for hematologic stem cell transplantation
... that Enterococcus faecium bacteremia with increased daptomycin MICs (3–4 μg/mL) was shown to be associated with predicted microbiological failure of dapto- mycin therapy ...
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