Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium clinical isolates from two hospitals in Mexico: First detection of VanB phenotype-vanA genotype.

CONCLUSION: The high resistance to most antimicrobial agents and the moderate cross-transmission of VREF detected accentuates the need for continuous surveillance of E. faecium in the hospital setting. This is also the first reported incidence of the E. faecium VanB phenotype-vanA genotype in the Americas. PMID: 26589756 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica - Category: Microbiology Tags: Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin Source Type: research