Central Venous Catheter Colonization by Linezolid-Resistant, Vancomycin-Susceptible Enterococcus faecalis
- 1 May 2006
- journal article
- case report
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 44 (5) , 1915-6
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.44.5.1915-1916.2006
Abstract
Resistance to linezolid is rare in clinical isolates of Enterococcus faecalis . A strain resistant to this antimicrobial but susceptible to vancomycin was found to cause central venous catheter colonization in a patient who never received linezolid.Keywords
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