BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) have emerged as important nosocomial pathogens. This study was conducted to clarify the clinical features and outcome of patients with vancomycin-resistant enterococcal bacteremia. METHODS Patients with vancomycin-resistant enterococcal bacteremia treated at a medical center in northern Taiwan between November 1998 and July 2006 we...

* Corresponding author. Tel.: +351 22 5580001; fax E-mail address: [email protected] (P. Teixeira) The aim of this work was to characterize Enterococcus spp. isolated from Alheira, Chouriça de Vinhais and Salpicão de Vinhais, fermented meat products produced in the North of Portugal, concerning their potential pathogenicity. One hundred and eighty two isolates (76 identified as Enterococcus...

The MICs and MBCs of CI-934, ciprofloxacin, difloxacin (A-56619), A-56620, norfloxacin, enoxacin, amifloxacin, and coumermycin were determined for 43 clinical isolates of Enterococcus faecalis known to be resistant to penicillin-aminoglycoside synergy. Results were compared with those obtained for 37 synergy-susceptible E. faecalis and 22 Enterococcus faecium strains. Although no substantial di...

Although imipenem has in vitro activity against Enterococcus faecalis and Food and Drug Administration-approved indications for treatment of infections caused by this microorganism, there are no NCCLS guidelines for susceptibility testing of imipenem versus enterococci. Therefore, the in vitro activities of penicillin, ampicillin, imipenem, and vancomycin against 201 blood isolates of E. faecal...

From 1 January to 31 December 2011, 29 institutions around Australia participated in the Australian Enterococcal Sepsis Outcome Programme (AESOP). The aim of AESOP 2011 was to determine the proportion of enterococcal bacteraemia isolates in Australia that are antimicrobial resistant, with particular emphasis on susceptibility to ampicillin and the glycopeptides, and to characterise the molecula...

Enterococci cause infections with various localizations, the most common being urinary infections. The purpose of study was to identify profile antimicrobial resistance enterococci species (AMRE) isolated from patients hospitalized in three hospitals Romania. We evaluated AMRE retrospectively (2019–2021) biological samples. microbiological diagnosis sustained by classical methods bacteria cultu...

The enterococcal surface protein, Esp, originally found in Enterococcus faecalis, has been associated with increased virulence, colonization, and biofilm formation (2, 3, 5, 6). Recently, a variant esp gene was found in Enterococcus faecium isolates from humans (L. Baldassarri, L. Burtuccini, M. G. Ammendolia, G. Gherardi, and R. Creti, Letter, Lancet 357:1802, 2001; R. J. Willems, W. Homan, J....

the aim of this work was identified lactic floraas a traditional fermented food and then evaluates antimicrobial activities of some strains. a total of 140 gram-positive and catalase-negative isolates were subjected to grouping by physiological and biochemical tests and carbohydrates fermentation. based on the resultsthese 140 isolateswere dividedinto 9 groups. two or three isolated were select...