WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE) is among the leading causes of hospital-acquired infections in the United States. An estimated 20,000 people in the U.S. become infected ...

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Vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE) are increasingly important pathogens in stem cell transplant (SCT). In all, 61 pediatric SCT patients had surveillance stool cultures for VRE between July 1999 ...

Brooke N. Shadel , PhD, MPH, Laura A. Puzniak , PhD, MPH, Kathleen N. Gillespie , PhD, Steven J. Lawrence , MD, Marin Kollef , MD and Linda M. Mundy , MD Objective ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Exposure to the antibiotics did not increase the risk for vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus colonization. Few ...

In recent years, the emergence of widespread antibiotic resistance has been getting increasing publicity, while there is also a worldwide attempt to provide financial support for the research and ...

SANTA BARBARA, CA, UNITED STATES, January 3, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- “Seven out of eleven CLA-BSIs (central-line associated bloodstream infections) in 2010 were ...

Antibiotic exposure and dirty hands were factors linked to nursing home contamination with the multidrug-resistant bacteria vancomycin-resistant Enterococci, or VRE, a new study finds. The report was ...

Clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus displaying intermediate resistance to vancomycin (VISA) have been identified. The objective of our study was to identify VISA colonization among patients ...

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What Benefit Are Contact Precautions? Breaking news: Healthcare workers do not like contact precautions, and high-quality data to support contact precautions for endemic methicillin-resistant ...