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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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