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| Furtado,Guilherme Henrique Campos; Martins,Sinaida Teixeira; Coutinho,Ana Paula; Wey,Sérgio Barsanti; Medeiros,Eduardo Alexandrino Servolo. |
| Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) are important pathogens causing nosocomial infections, and there is reason for concern about their resistance and great ability to spread in hospital environments, especially intensive-care units (ICU). To determine the prevalence of rectal colonization by VRE, and the risk factors associated with their presence, rectal surveillance swabs were taken from patients under treatment in two intensive-care units (one medical and another both medical and surgical) at São Paulo Hospital, over a two-year period. Thirty-three percent of the 147 patients evaluated had VRE. The only significant variable in the logistic regression was the length of stay in the ICU. |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Vancomycin-resistant enterococci; Rectal colonization; Intensive care unit. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702005000100011 |
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| d'Azevedo,Pedro Alves; Santiago,Kelly Aline de Souza; Furtado,Guilherme Henrique Campos; Xavier,Diego Batista; Pignatari,Antonio Carlos Campos; Titze-de-Almeida,Ricardo. |
| The reduction in time required to identify vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) has gained increased importance during hospital outbreaks. In the present study, we implemented a laboratory protocol to speed up the VRE screening from rectal samples. The protocol combines a medium for selective VRE isolation (VREBAC®, Probac, São Paulo) and a multiplex PCR for detection and identification of vanA and vanB resistance genes. The screening performance was analyzed in 114 specimens collected from four intensive care units. The swabs were collected at two periods: (1) during a VRE outbreak (February 2006, n=83 patients) and (2) at the post-outbreak period, after adoption of infection control measures (June 2006, n=31 patients). Forty-one/83 VRE (49.4%) and... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Enterococcus; VRE; Vancomycin; Diagnostic; PCR. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702009000400010 |
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