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| Titze-de-Almeida,Ricardo; Rollo Filho,Maurício; Nogueira,Celeste A.; Rodrigues,Isabela P.; Eudes Filho,João; Nascimento,Rejane S. do; Ferreira II,Renato F.; Moraes,Lídia M. P.; Boelens,Hélène; Van Belkum,Alex; Felipe,Maria Sueli Soares. |
| We studied the antimicrobial resistance and the molecular epidemiology of 99 enterococcal surveillance isolates from two hospitals of Brasília, Brazil. Conventional biochemical tests were used to identify the enterococcal species and the disk diffusion method was used to determine their resistance profiles. Enterococcus faecalis (76%) and E. faecium (9%) were the most prevalent species. No enterococci showed the vanA or vanB vancomycin resistance phenotypes or genotypes. Only the intrinsically resistant species E. gallinarum (n=2) and E. casseliflavus (n=3) harbored the vancomycin-resistance genes vanC1 and vanC2/3, respectively. We found E. faecalis isolates with high-level resistance to gentamicin (22%) and streptomycin (8%) and both E. faecalis and E.... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Enterococci; Antimicrobial resistance; Genotyping. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702004000300002 |
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