| [vancomycin-resistant enterococcus faecium outbreak in a nephrology ward]. | in april 2000, an outbreak of vancomycin-resistant enterococcus faecium (vre) was discovered in an internal medicine/nephrology and dialysis ward of the eemland hospital, amersfoort, the netherlands. although enterococci are considered relatively non-virulent, vre are resistant to almost all commercially available antibiotics. surveillance cultures were obtained from all patients at the ward, all patients visiting the dialysis ward and the environment of patients. vre were determined and cluster ... | 2000 | 11191795 |
| [epidemiologic increase of various genotypes of vancomycin-resistant enterococcus faecium in a university hospital]. | after a report of a possible relationship between an outbreak of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (vre) in a nearby hospital and earlier admission of two of the patients with this vre in the university medical centre of utrecht (umcu), the netherlands, an extensive search for vre carriers was started in the umcu. in the study period of two months, vre carriership was diagnosed in 51 patients in nine of the 11 wards investigated. twenty-six patients in eight wards were colonized with the same vre ... | 2000 | 11191796 |
| acquisition and duration of vancomycin-resistant enterococcal carriage in relation to strain type. | in may 2000, the first outbreak of vancomycin-resistant enterococcus faecium (vref) was detected in the university medical center utrecht in the nephrology ward. the question arose why some vref strains spread among hospitalized patients, whereas other strains do not. thirty patients who were found to be colonized with vref between may and november 2000 were included in the study. molecular typing confirmed that 19 of them carried an identical epidemic strain which harbored the esp gene while 11 ... | 2003 | 14662914 |