[Molecular characterization of a glycopeptide-resistant Enterococcus faecalis outbreak in an intensive care unit] - PubMed (original) (raw)
[Molecular characterization of a glycopeptide-resistant Enterococcus faecalis outbreak in an intensive care unit]
[Article in Spanish]
María Dolores Maciá et al. Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin. 2005 Oct.
Abstract
Introduction: Between January and August 2003 glycopeptide-resistant Enterococcus faecalis was isolated from eight patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU).
Methods: Antibiotic susceptibility testing was performed by disk diffusion and the Etest, clonal relatedness of the isolates was studied by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), and the presence of vanA was investigated by PCR.
Results and conclusions: All the isolates were vanA-positive and had an identical PFGE pattern, showing that an outbreak had occurred in our ICU.
Comment in
- [Glycopeptide-resistant Enterococcus in Europe: an increasing nosocomial problem].
Francia MV. Francia MV. Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin. 2005 Oct;23(8):457-9. doi: 10.1157/13078821. Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin. 2005. PMID: 16185557 Spanish. No abstract available.