Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium
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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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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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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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 ...
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Emergence of Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus faecium at an Australian Hospital: A Whole Genome Sequencing Analysis
... In terms of the vanA locus containing VREfm isolates, a phylogenetic clade, PC2, which contained 12 ST80 isolates was identified from the sequence data. Again, epidemiological and whole genome variant analy- sis revealed ...
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Comparison of an Automated Repetitive Sequence Based PCR Microbial Typing System with Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis for Molecular Typing of Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus faecium
... of vancomycin (BEAV) and chromogenic agar medium (chromID VRE; bioMe ´rieux, Marcy l’Etoile, ...as vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium or Enterococcus faecalis, ...against ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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Decolonization of gastrointestinal carriage of vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium: case series and review of literature
... multidrug- resistant organisms including VRE in accordance to the hospital infection control ...for vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium which was resistant to ampicillin, ...
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Whole-genome sequencing reveals transmission of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a healthcare network
... All 51 VRE-positive stools were cultured for the pres- ence of VSE, which was identified in 25 (49 %) stools from the three participants (n = 9, 15 and 1 for P7, P15 and P31, respectively). MLST was identified from the ...
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Molecular Characterization of Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus faecium Isolates from Mainland China
... Conjugation experiments. Broth matings were performed as previously de- scribed with a donor/recipient ratio of 1:10 (5, 12). Overnight cultures of 0.05 ml of the donor and 0.45 ml of the recipient were added to 4.5 ml ...
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Evidence for the genetic unrelatedness of nosocomial vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium strains in a pediatric hospital
... We used RFLP analysis of total DNA and rDNA regions for the epidemiological evaluation of 16 vancomycin-resistant enterococci strains isolated from 15 patients in our hospital over a 17-[r] ...
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Whole Genome Sequencing of Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus Faecium Isolated from Saudi Arabia
... of vancomycin resistance vary and are found to below in VanB type strains and high in VanA type ...expression vancomycin resistance levels, VanB type strains are characterized by resistance to ...
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Genetic Rearrangements of Tn1546 Like Elements in Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus faecium Isolates Collected from Hospitalized Patients over a Seven Year Period
... E. faecium from 48 hospitalized patients at Ajou University Hospital (Table ...E. faecium had seven or more band differences, since we regarded the strains of VRE as “genetically unrelated” if they revealed ...
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Emergence of linezolid- and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a department for hematologic stem cell transplantation
... linezolid, vancomycin, teicoplanin and daptomycin against the nine saved LVRE isolates are shown in Table ...in Enterococcus is a nucleotide change at position 2576 (G2576U) in the central region of domain ...
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Characterization of Tn1546 in Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus faecium Isolated from Canine Urinary Tract Infections: Evidence of Gene Exchange between Human and Animal Enterococci
... included Enterococcus faecium (n ⴝ 13), Enterococcus faecalis (n ⴝ 7), Enterococcus gallinarum (n ⴝ 11), and Enterococcus casseliflavus (n ⴝ ...E. faecium isolate, CVM1869, ...
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High Prevalence of VanB2 Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus faecium in Taiwan
... E. faecium harboring the vanB2 gene was prevalent ...of vancomycin has increased tremendously in Taiwan during the last ...E. faecium in Taiwan is the result of unregulated use of vancomycin ...
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Characterization of Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus faecium Isolates from Broiler Poultry and Pig Farms in England and Wales
... the vancomycin re- sistance genes rather than the spread of a single ...for vancomycin resistance by the use of other compounds? There may also be other undetermined factors indirectly se- lecting for the ...
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Selection of a Teicoplanin Resistant Enterococcus faecium Mutant during an Outbreak Caused by Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci with the VanB Phenotype
... of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis (VRES) and horizontal transmission of vanco- mycin resistance genes among several vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium ...
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