Brote de infección por Enterococcus Faecium resistentes a glicopéptidos en un hospital de Rosario, Argentina
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https://doi.org/10.31053/1853.0605.v60.n2.36667Keywords:
Enterococcus faecium, vancomycin resistant Enterococcus, outbreak, glycopeptidesAbstract
Eriterococci causes serious ihlness in immunocompromised patients and in severely ill. hospi talized patienis. Thcy are comrnonly isolated from the human gastrointestinal tract, and rcsistance to vancomycin has increased in frequency during the past fewyears. We report three cases of nosocomial vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) infections from September to December
of 2000. A 54-year-old man presented post surgical wound infection due lo VRE after 2 months of hospitaliza tion. The seconcl is a 65-year-old neutropenic patient with a medical history of acute mieloici leukemia and esophageal carcinoma. In this case, central venous catheter was colonized with EVR. The third, a 65-year-old wornan who received therapy with ceftriaxone, ciprofloxacin and clindamicin had a urinary tract infection due to EVR. The three isolates were resistant to vancornycin (MIC value > 256 pg/ml). The DNA amplification pattern obtained by OD-PCR were similar in the three cases
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