Survey of antibiotic resistance among enterococci in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
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| Authors: | Reinert R R Conrads G Schlaeger J J Werner G Witte W Lütticken R Klare I |
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| Affiliation: | National Reference Center for Streptococci, Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Aachen, D-52057 Aachen, Germany. Reinert@rwth-Aachen.de |
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| Abstract: | A surveillance study on antibiotic resistance of enterococcal isolates (n = 730) was carried out in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in 1997. Resistance rates to ampicillin (7.4%), high-level gentamicin (15.0%), high-level streptomycin (27.9%), ciprofloxacin (37.9%), vancomycin (1.5%), and teicoplanin (1.5%) were determined. All vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) carried the vanA gene. SmaI and ApaI macrorestriction patterns indicated an intra- and interhospital spread of VRE. |
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