Article
Clinical and molecular epidemiology of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium bacteremia from an Indian tertiary hospital.
European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology - 1 Feb 2021
Rao Chandrabhan, Dhawan Benu, Vishnubhatla Sreenivas, Kapil Arti, Das Bimal, Sood Seema
Abstract excerpt
We determined the clinical and molecular epidemiology of emerging nosocomial vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm)-causing serious bloodstream infections (BSIs) and the correlations between antibiotic resistance and virulence determinants among isolates. All isolates were confirmed by molecular methods (16SrRNA and E. faecium ddl genes) and tested for disk diffusion. PCR was used to detect...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Bacteremia
- Child
- Cross Infection
- Enterococcus faecium
- Female
- Genotype
- Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections
- Humans
- India
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Tertiary Care Centers