Publications
| evaluation of the prevalence and risk factors for colonization by vancomycin-resistant enterococcus among patients on dialysis. | vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (vre) has been reported among long-term dialysis patients, although risk factors for vre colonization are not well defined. this study aims to appraise the prevalence and risk factors for vre colonization among patients on long-term dialysis therapy, as well as the mechanisms for dissemination of vancomycin resistance. | 2004 | 15264193 |
| molecular epidemiology and antimicrobial susceptibility of enterococci recovered from brazilian intensive care units. | we studied the antimicrobial resistance and the molecular epidemiology of 99 enterococcal surveillance isolates from two hospitals of brasilia, 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 r ... | 2004 | 15476051 |