Nosocomial Spread of Enterococcus faecium Resistant to Vancomycin and Linezolid in a Tertiary Care Medical Center
- 1 September 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 44 (9) , 3368-3370
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.00850-06
Abstract
In May 2004 our institution encountered its first clinical isolate of linezolid-resistant, vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (LRVRE). Between October 2004 and July 2005, 40 patients from whom LRVRE organisms were recovered in clinical specimens were characterized. Epidemiologic investigation and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis patterns indicated a clonal outbreak related to nosocomial spread.Keywords
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