New Guidelines Endorse Old Recommendations for Invasive Enterococcal Infections

Resistant Nosocomial Enterococcal Infections

Enterococcus faecalis, formerly classified as Streptococcus faecalis, belongs to Lancefield group D and is frequently isolated from nosocomial infections. Of the nosocomial infections reported to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in its National Nosocomial Infection Survey (NNIS), enterococci were isolated from 11% of cases. Frequently, E. faecalis is recovered as one of several kinds of ba...

Enterococcal infections & antimicrobial resistance.

Enterococci have traditionally regarded as low grade pathogens, have emerged as an increasingly important cause of nosocomial infections in the last decade. Although about a dozen enterococcus species have been identified, only two are responsible for the majority of human infections, i.e., Enterococcus faecalis and E. faecium. The most common nosocomial infections produced by these organisms a...

Ispd Guidelines / Recommendations Peritoneal Dialysis - Related Infections Recommendations : 2010 Update

Department of Medicine and Therapeutics,1 Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine,2 Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Faculdade de Enfermagem, Nutrição e Fisioterapia,3 Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences,4 Lucknow, India; Department of Nephrology,...

Changing Paradigm of Enterococcal Infections

Enterococci are increasingly recognized as an important nosocomial pathogen. The present study was done to establish the changing paradigm of blood culture enterococcal isolates and emergence of Enterococcus faecium as a nosocomial pathogen. A total of 150 Enterococcal isolates were obtained during the study period from January 2013 to March 2014. 68.3% and 31.7% of adult and 53% and 43% of pae...

New guidelines for severe respiratory infections.