| evidence of nosocomial infection in japan caused by high-level gentamicin-resistant enterococcus faecalis and identification of the pheromone-responsive conjugative plasmid encoding gentamicin resistance. | a total of 1,799 enterococcus faecalis isolates were isolated from inpatients of gunma university hospital, gunma, japan, between 1992 and 1996. four hundred thirty-two (22.3%) of the 1,799 isolates had high-level gentamicin resistance. eighty-one of the 432 isolates were classified and were placed into four groups (group a through group d) with respect to the ecori restriction endonuclease profiles of the plasmid dnas isolated from these strains. the 81 isolates were isolated from 36 patients. ... | 1998 | 9705374 |
| nosocomial infection caused by vancomycin-susceptible multidrug-resistant enterococcus faecalis over a long period in a university hospital in japan. | compared with other developed countries, vancomycin-resistant enterococci (vre) are not widespread in clinical environments in japan. there have been no vre outbreaks and only a few vre strains have sporadically been isolated in our university hospital in gunma, japan. to examine the drug susceptibility of enterococcus faecalis and nosocomial infection caused by non-vre strains, a retrospective surveillance was conducted in our university hospital. molecular epidemiological analyses were perform ... | 2014 | 25145983 |