We analyzed surveillance cultures for vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) collected during a multicenter trial to determine if three negative cultures collected at weekly intervals would predict clearance of VRE or MRSA from colonized patients. Seventy-two percent of VRE-colonized patients and 94% of MRSA-colonized patients were culture ...

Virtual Research Environments (VRE) have the potential to re-shape the research landscape at academic institutions. The Virtual Research Environment (VRE) programme is currently underway with the development of 15 VREs that are investigating the development of an infrastructure to support research activities over a wide variety of disciplines ranging from the Arts and Humanities to the Sciences...

Intended Audience The purpose of this report is to give an account of the evaluation of Anoto digital pen and paper technology conducted as part of the Integrative Biology VRE project at the University of Oxford. The audience for this document includes the digital pen and paper developers and manufacturers, as well as those researching paper augmentation or replacement technologies. It is also ...

Background The dramatic upsurge in the incidence of VRE worldwide had contributed serious concerns in early and specific diagnosis, infection control measures and treatment. There exists a paucity of information regarding VRE genotypes and their virulence genes contributing to disease severity in India. This study determines the prevalence of VRE and the role of four virulence genes in their cl...

Authors' conclusions Due to the world-wide extension of the problem of bacterial resistances Catalonia is one of the areas where vancomycin resistant enterococcus strains have been found and the potential of transmission to meticilin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a multiresistant organism which poses a hard-to-solve therapeutical challenge (actually, lowsensitivity strains have been found in...

BACKGROUND In late 1996, vancomycin-resistant enterococci were first detected in the Siouxland region of Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota. A task force was created, and in 1997 the assistance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was sought in assessing the prevalence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in the region's facilities and implementing recommendations for screening, infec...

BACKGROUND Enterococci become clinically important especially in immune compromised patients and important causes of nosocomial infections. Data on the prevalence, antimicrobial susceptibility patterns and associated factors of enterococci are scarce in Ethiopia. METHODS A hospital based cross-sectional study was conducted at the University of Gondar Teaching Hospital from February 28, 2014 t...

conclusions the results showed that enterococci are common contaminants in food. indeed, this study indicates a high prevalence of multidrug-resistant enterococci in food of animal origin in iran. isolating some persisting enterococcal isolates revealed that continuous surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in enterococci from food is essential. materials and methods thirty samples of meat, c...

BACKGROUND During and shortly after birth, newborn infants are colonized with enterococci. This study analyzes predictors for early enterococcal colonization of infants in a neonatal intensive care unit and describes risk factors associated with multidrugresistant enterococci colonization and its seasonal patterns. METHODS Over a 12-month period, we performed a prospective epidemiological stu...