Gut overgrowth of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) results in linezolid-resistant mutation in a child with severe congenital neutropenia: a case report.

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A child with severe congenital neutropenia was monitored with microbiologic surveillance cultures for 3 years. He had recurrent bacterial infections and carriage of vancomycin-resistant enterococci. Resistance to linezolid emerged in the colonizing vancomycin-resistant enterococci after each course of this antibiotic when enterococci were present in overgrowth in the gut before treatment. The child was...

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