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| Strabelli,Tânia Mara Varejão; Cais,Daiane P.; Zeigler,Rogério; Siciliano,Rinaldo; Rodrigues,Cristhieni; Carrara,Dirceu; Neres,Suzi; Lessa,Sarita; Uip,David Everson. |
| Early identification of an outbreak is one of the main advantages of routine epidemiological surveillance. Enterococcus spp. used to be regarded as microorganisms of low pathogenicity, because they are part of the normal microbial flora of the gastrointestinal and genitourinary tract. Recently, they have emerged as important pathogenic agents, sometimes causing infections with high mortality rates. We studied a clustering of primary bloodstream infections caused by Enterococcus faecalis in a cardiology hospital neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Four cases of primary bloodstream infection by E. faecalis were detected from April 15 to May 13, 2004, during active infection surveillance. The isolates were sensitive to glycopeptides. Some aspects of the... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Enterococcus faecalis; Clustering; Neonatal intensive care unit; Bloodstream; Infection. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702006000200008 |
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