Literature DB >> 11724887

Dissemination of clonally unrelated erythromycin- and glycopeptide-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolates in a tertiary Greek hospital.

A N Maniatis1, S Pournaras, M Kanellopoulou, F Kontos, E Dimitroulia, E Papafrangas, A Tsakris.   

Abstract

Between September 1999 to February 2001, 25 glycopeptide-resistant Enterococcus faecium (GRE) isolates were recovered from a Greek hospital. The isolates exhibited 13 distinct chromosomal macrorestriction types by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, and all were erythromycin and vancomycin resistant, carrying the genes vanA and ermB. Vancomycin resistance, always linked with erythromycin resistance, was transferable from 17 isolates. The dissemination of erythromycin-resistant GRE strains may, at least in part, reflect the extensive use of macrolides in husbandry in Greece.

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Year:  2001        PMID： 11724887      PMCID： PMC88591          DOI： 10.1128/JCM.39.12.4571-4574.2001

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J Clin Microbiol        ISSN： 0095-1137            Impact factor:   5.948


  18 in total

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Authors:  D Morrison; N Woodford; S P Barrett; P Sisson; B D Cookson
Journal:  J Clin Microbiol       Date:  1999-04       Impact factor: 5.948

Review 2.  Spread of vancomycin-resistant enterococci: why did it happen in the United States?

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Journal:  Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol       Date:  1998-08       Impact factor: 3.254

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Authors:  A E van den Bogaard; L B Jensen; E E Stobberingh
Journal:  N Engl J Med       Date:  1997-11-20       Impact factor: 91.245

4.  Characterization of glycopeptide-resistant enterococcus faecium (GRE) from broilers and pigs in Denmark: genetic evidence that persistence of GRE in pig herds is associated with coselection by resistance to macrolides.

Authors:  F M Aarestrup
Journal:  J Clin Microbiol       Date:  2000-07       Impact factor: 5.948

5.  Effect of abolishment of the use of antimicrobial agents for growth promotion on occurrence of antimicrobial resistance in fecal enterococci from food animals in Denmark.

Authors:  F M Aarestrup; A M Seyfarth; H D Emborg; K Pedersen; R S Hendriksen; F Bager
Journal:  Antimicrob Agents Chemother       Date:  2001-07       Impact factor: 5.191

Review 6.  Interpreting chromosomal DNA restriction patterns produced by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis: criteria for bacterial strain typing.

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Journal:  J Clin Microbiol       Date:  1995-09       Impact factor: 5.948

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Authors:  J Douboyas; A Tsakris
Journal:  J Antimicrob Chemother       Date:  1995-01       Impact factor: 5.790

8.  Epidemiology of a dominant clonal strain of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium at separate hospitals in Boston, Massachusetts.

Authors:  S K Fridkin; D S Yokoe; C G Whitney; A Onderdonk; D C Hooper
Journal:  J Clin Microbiol       Date:  1998-04       Impact factor: 5.948

9.  Comparison of high-level gentamicin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolates from different continents.

Authors:  N Woodford; D Morrison; B Cookson; R C George
Journal:  Antimicrob Agents Chemother       Date:  1993-04       Impact factor: 5.191

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Authors:  J Bates
Journal:  J Hosp Infect       Date:  1997-10       Impact factor: 3.926
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  2 in total

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Authors:  Achilleas Gikas; Athanasia Christidou; Efstathia Scoulica; Paulos Nikolaidis; Athanasios Skoutelis; Stamatina Levidiotou; Sofia Kartali; Efstratios Maltezos; Simeon Metalidis; John Kioumis; George Haliotis; Sofia Dima; Maria Roumbelaki; Nikoleta Papageorgiou; Evangelos I Kritsotakis; Yannis Tselentis
Journal:  J Clin Microbiol       Date:  2005-11       Impact factor: 5.948

2.  Molecular characteristics of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium from a tertiary care hospital in Chengdu, China: molecular characteristics of VRE in China.

Authors:  M Kang; Y Xie; C He; Z X Chen; L Guo; Q Yang; J Y Liu; Y Du; Q S Ou; L L Wang
Journal:  Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis       Date:  2014-01-24       Impact factor: 3.267
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