| increasing prevalence of high-level gentamicin resistance among enterococci isolated in greece. | high-level gentamicin-resistant enterococci (hlgre) (mic >512 microg/ml) were frequently recovered in the ahepa university hospital, thessaloniki, greece, during a 15-month period (67/158, 42.4%). pcr testing showed that high-level gentamicin resistance was attributable to the presence of the aac(6')-aph(2") gene, while the recently described genes aph (2")-ic and aph(2")-id were not detected. high-level gentamicin resistance could be transferred with varying frequency from 41 of 57 enterococcus ... | 2001 | 11173808 |