Conference
An Outbreak of Vancomycin-Dependent Enterococcus faecium in a Bone Marrow Transplant Unit
Abstract
Outbreaks of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) are well described. The presence of mutants of VRE, such as vancomycin-dependent enterococci (VDE), in individual patients has been documented, but their potential to spread nosocomially has not been known. We present the first cluster of patients who acquired VDE nosocomially. Five bone marrow transplantation patients were infected or colonized by a genotypically indistinguishable …
Authors
Kirkpatrick BD; Harrington SM; Smith D; Marcellus D; Miller C; Dick J; Karanfil L; Perl TM
Volume
29
Pagination
pp. 1268-1273
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Publication Date
November 1, 1999
DOI
10.1086/313456
Conference proceedings
Clinical Infectious Diseases
Issue
5
ISSN
1058-4838