ArticleJournal of laboratory physicians
Risk factors for intestinal colonization with vancomycin resistant enterococci' A prospective study in a level III pediatric intensive care unit.
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- Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci: Screening Efficacy and the Risk of Bloodstream Infections in a Specialized Healthcare Setting.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Appropriate use of vancomycin in a cardiac surgical unit.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2024Article
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- The intestinal carrier status of Enterococcus spp. in children: clonal diversity and alterations in resistance phenotypes before and after admission to a pediatric intensive care unit.BMC pediatrics · 2023Article
- Microbial spectrum and drug resistance of pathogens cultured from gallbladder bile specimens of patients with cholelithiasis: A single-center retrospective study.World journal of gastrointestinal surgery · 2022Article
- Vancomycin resistant Enterococci and its associated factors among HIV infected patients on anti-retroviral therapy in Ethiopia.PloS one · 2021Article
- Incidence of genes encoding vanA/vanB vancomycin resistance in rectal swabs of patients with diagnosed cancer, on the day of admission to hospital, in a non-epidemic period.Przeglad gastroenterologiczny · 2020Article
- Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE): a reason to isolate?Infection · 2019Review
- Gut colonization with vancomycin-resistantGut pathogens · 2018Article
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Abstract
purposeVancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) emerged as one of the major nosocomial pathogens across the globe. Gut colonization rate with VRE is higher in patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) due to the higher antibiotic pressure. VRE colonization increases the risk of developing infection up to 5-10 folds. The aim of this study was to determine the rates of VRE colonization among the patients admitted to pediatric ICU (PICU) and risk factors associated with it. MATERIALS AND
methodsRectal swabs were collected after 48 h of admission to PICU from 198 patients. The samples were inoculated onto bile esculin sodium azide agar with 6 mg/ml of vancomycin. Growth on this medium was identified by the standard biochemical test, and minimum inhibitory concentration of vancomycin and teicoplanin was detected by agar dilution method. Resistance genes for vancomycin were detected by polymerase chain reaction. Risk factors were assessed by logistic regression analysis.
resultsThe rates of VRE colonization in patients admitted to PICU was 18.6%. The majority of the isolates were
conclusionRoutine surveillance and isolation of patients found to be VRE colonized may not be possible in tertiary care hospitals; however, educating health-care workers, promoting handwashing with antiseptic soaps or solutions, and antibiotic Stewardship policy may help in the reduction of vancomycin resistance and VRE colonization.
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