Recent developments have improved our understanding of enterococcal population
structure, pathogenesis and glycopeptide-resistance maintenance. This may contribute to …

Controlling the spread of multi-or extensively drug-resistant bacteria (MDR or XDR) includes
a dual strategy for reducing antibiotic prescriptions and preventing their spread from patient …

Objectives Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) have been increasingly
reported since the 1980s. Despite the high number of published studies about VRE …

O principal objetivo deste estudo é identificar, na literatura, artigos sobre a ocorrência de
contaminação das superfícies inanimadas e uma possível disseminação de bactérias …

The main objective of this study is to identify, in the literature, articles about the occurrence of
contamination from inanimate surfaces and a possible dissemination of resistant bacteria in …

Background Healthcare-associated infections have become a public health problem,
creating a new burden on medical care in hospitals. The emergence of multidrug-resistant …

Background Despite growing concern about vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) as
nosocomial pathogens, especially in the USA, they have been rarely isolated in Turkish …

Empirical antimicrobial therapy is usually started in febrile neutropenic patients without
having culture results. The aim of this study was to help determine the policies of empirical …

Infections and outbreaks of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) still appear to be rare in
Turkey. In the present study, VRE strains isolated during an outbreak in a haematology unit …

The aim of the study was to investigate vancomycin and high-level aminoglycoside
resistance (HLAR) in Enterococcus species by phenotypic and genotypic methods. A …