Emergence of vanA vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a hospital in Porto Alegre, South Brazil | Zendy

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Emergence of vanA vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a hospital in Porto Alegre, South Brazil

Author(s) -

Mariah Costa Carvalho de Resende,

Juliana Caierão,

Juliana Gil Prates,

Gabriel Narváez,

Cícero Armídio Gomes Dias,

Pedro Alves d’Azevedo

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

the journal of infection in developing countries

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.322

H-Index - 49

eISSN - 2036-6590

pISSN - 1972-2680

DOI - 10.3855/jidc.4126

Subject(s) - enterococcus faecium , vancomycin , epidemiology , ampicillin , vancomycin resistant enterococci , outbreak , medicine , enterococcus faecalis , gentamicin , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , antibiotics , virology , staphylococcus aureus , bacteria , genetics

In Porto Alegre (South Brazil), since the first VRE isolation in 2000 until the middle of the last decade, the epidemiology of enterococcal infections presented the peculiarity that, as opposed to other regions of the country, almost all VRE were E. faecalis. The aim of this study was to investigate the microbiological and epidemiological characteristics of a VRE outbreak that occurred between August 2010 and September 2011 in Porto Alegre, South Brazil.

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