Epidemiology and Molecular Analysis of Intestinal Colonization by Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci in Greek Hospitals

Autor: Efstathia Scoulica, Nikoleta Papageorgiou, John Kioumis, Yannis Tselentis, Sofia Kartali, Stamatina Levidiotou, George Haliotis, Sofia Dima, Paulos Nikolaidis, Efstratios Maltezos, Simeon Metalidis, Achilleas Gikas, Evangelos I. Kritsotakis, Athanasia Christidou, Athanasios Skoutelis, Maria Roumbelaki
Rok vydání: 2005
Předmět:
Microbiology (medical)
Epidemiology
Greece/epidemiology
Biology
Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology
Microbiology
Hospitals
University
Random Allocation
Bacterial Proteins
Vancomycin
Peptide Synthases/genetics
Genotype
Enterococcus faecalis
Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis
medicine
Humans
Peptide Synthases
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections
Antibacterial agent
Molecular Epidemiology
Enterococcus faecalis/drug effects/*genetics
Greece
Molecular epidemiology
Bacterial Proteins/genetics
Vancomycin Resistance
Vancomycin/pharmacology
Vancomycin Resistance/genetics
biochemical phenomena
metabolism
and nutrition
Hospitals
District
bacterial infections and mycoses
Streptococcaceae
biology.organism_classification
Phenotype
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Electrophoresis
Gel
Pulsed-Field
carbohydrates (lipids)
Enterococcus
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections/*epidemiology
medicine.drug
Zdroj: Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 43:5796-5799
ISSN: 1098-660X
0095-1137
Popis: From 1,246 specimens collected from 13 Greek hospitals, 266 vancomycin-resistant enterococci strains were isolated from 255 patients (20.5%). The VanA phenotype was present in 82 (30.8%) strains, the VanB phenotype in 17 (6.4%) strains, the VanC1 phenotype in 152 (57.1%) strains, and the VanC2/C3 phenotypes in 15 (5.6%) strains. When only VanA and VanB phenotypes were considered, the overall prevalence was 7.5%. Eighty-six isolates exhibiting the VanA or VanB phenotype were analyzed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), and 46 PFGE groups were found.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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