OBJECTIVE To examine use of third-generation cephalosporins (3GCs) alone and in association with vancomycin hydrochloride as a risk factor for vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE) infection in surgical patients. DESIGN Case-control retrospective study analyzing antibiotic use in the 30 days preceding culture of VRE or vancomycin-sensitive enterococcus from an infected site. SETTING A lar...

INTRODUCTION We retrospectively evaluated the rates of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) colonization and VRE-related infections in patients with hematological malignancies. METHODOLOGY All patients in the hematology department of the Ministry of Health Okmeydanı Training and Research Hospital, an 800-bed tertiary hospital in İstanbul, Turkey, older than 14 years of age and who developed...

A veia renal esquerda (VRE) se localiza anteriormente à artéria aorta abdominal e posteriormente mesentérica. Essa posição favorece a compressão da VRE, fato que tem como consequência manifestação síndrome do quebra nozes (SQN). Contudo, presença de uma variação anatômica extremamente rara na qual VRE assume retroaórtica apresenta um possível fator preventivo SQN. Assim, esta revisão literatura...

Introduction Since first isolated in 1986 in Europe (1) vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE) have emerged as a major nosocomial pathogen. Since then, VRE have been reported at an increasing number in countries outside Europe and the USA, such as in Singapore (2), Japan (3), Australia (4), and Korea (5). VRE is also a concern in Malaysia, however cases of VRE in human hospitals are uncommon (...

Ramoplanin is a glycolipodepsipeptide antibiotic with activity against gram-positive bacteria that is in clinical trials for prevention of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) bloodstream infections and treatment of Clostridium difficile diarrhea. Orally administered ramoplanin suppresses VRE intestinal colonization, but recurrences after discontinuation of treatment have frequently been obs...

BACKGROUND Vancomycin-resistant entrococci (VRE) are increasing in prevalence at many institutions, and are often reported in dialysis patients. The aim of this cross-sectional prevalence study was to determine the prevalence and risk factors of VRE colonization in chronic hemodialysis patients in two hemodialysis centers in Shiraz, Iran. METHODS Rectal swabs were obtained from all consenting...

BACKGROUND Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) have emerged as a growing problem in hospitals; however, domesticated animals, poultry, and wild birds are acting as potential reservoirs. There is a knowledge gap in the Epidemiology of VRE from Bangladesh. METHODS To study the prevalence of VRE and the mechanisms of resistance implicated among wild birds, 238 fecal samples were collected in ...

Nosocomial vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) infections have been described in only small numbers of pediatric patients. In none of these studies were multivariate analyses performed to assess which factors were independent risk factors in these patients. In the present cohort study of patients admitted to our hematology/oncology unit, surveillance cultures revealed a colonization rate of...