Enterococci are part of the normal human flora. Enterococcus faecalis und Enterococcus faecium are the most common species isolated from human infections. Vancomycinresistant enterococci (VRE) have emerged as a major cause of nosocomial infection as early as 1986 [1]. 10 years later, >15% of nosocomial enterococcal infections in United States hospitals were due to VRE, and even higher in intens...

conclusions: the combination of plasmid profiling and php techniques revealed the presence of diverse population of vre in sewage treatment plant in tehran. furthermore, the results showed that the php technique is a reliable method in determining the vre clonal diversity. results: all isolates were found to be resistant to erythromycin, ampicillin and ciprofloxacin. the pcr analyses showed tha...

Enterococci have caused infections in hospitalized patients for many decades. Given that they were part of the normal flora of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and that they frequently appeared as part of the flora in infections related to fecal contamination, they originally were considered endogenous pathogens of little nosocomial import This view began to change with the appearance of enteroc...

The presence of Enterococcus-associated vancomycin resistance genes vanA, vanB, vanD, vanE, and vanG in rectal swabs was investigated in two hospitals using PCR. All vanA genes detected were associated with vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), whereas VRE-associated vanB genes were detected in only one hospital (4.7%). However, in both hospitals, high prevalences of vanB (6.2 and 2.3%), vanD...

Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) were detected in two faecal samples (1.3%) of song thrush in Portugal. vanA isolates showed high level vancomycin/teicoplanin resistance, as well as resistance to ciprofloxacin, quinupristin-dalfopristin and cloranfenicol. Thrush can be a reservoir of VRE and transmit these resistant bacteria to other animals including humans.

BACKGROUND Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) are important nosocomial pathogens and food chain has been considered as an assumed source for dissemination of VRE to human. OBJECTIVES The presence of VRE isolates from food samples and typing of these isolates with Phene plate, a biochemical fingerprinting method, were investigated. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty samples of meat, chicken an...

In a recent issue of this Journal, Jolivet and colleagues reported the first nosocomial outbreak of vanA-type vancomycinresistant Enterococcus raffinosus in France [1]. We would like to report a vanA-positive E. raffinosus outbreak that is not only the first in Belgium but, to our knowledge, is also the first to be reported in a nursing home anywhere in the world. We also tabulate a literature ...

vancomycin-resistant enterococci (vre) are becoming a major concern in medical practice. their increased prevalence and their ability to transfer vancomycin resistance to other bacteria have made them a subject of close scrutiny and intense investigation. colonization is usually acquired by susceptible hosts in an environment with a high rate of patient colonization with vre. the aim of this st...