Titre : Boraginaceae

Boraginaceae : Questions médicales fréquentes

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Enterococcus faecium
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Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium: The value of a computerized monitoring system to limit their spread.

To quickly implement Infection Prevention and Control measures ("search and isolate" strategy), a computerized monitoring system for carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) and Vancomycin-res... Using the data extracted from the computerized system, we conducted a descriptive analysis of CPE and VRE carriers detected from 2004 to 2019 and CPE and VRE extensive contact patients (when hospital ... Between 2015 and 2019 (microbiological data only available during this period), 113 CPE and 558 VRE carriers were registered in the database (DB). Among them, 33.9% CPE and 12.8% VRE carriers were inf... Given the low screening completion rate (26.2%) and the low detection rate (1.3%), extended monitoring of contact patients does not seem relevant. After five years of use, the computerized monitoring ...

Fitness costs of Tn1546-type transposons harboring the vanA operon by plasmid type and structural diversity in Enterococcus faecium.

This study analyzed the genetic traits and fitness costs of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) blood isolates carrying Tn1546-type transposons harboring the vanA operon.... All E. faecium blood isolates were collected from eight general hospitals in South Korea during one-year study period. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing and vanA and vanB PCR were performed. Growth... Among 308 E. faecium isolates, 132 (42.9%) were positive for vanA. All Tn1546-type transposons harboring the vanA operon located on the plasmids, but on the chromosome in seven isolates. The plasmids ... The possession of vanA operon was costly to bacterial hosts in antimicrobial-free environment, which provide evidence for the importance of reducing vancomycin pressure for prevention of VREfm dissemi...

In vitro virulence activity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, enhanced by either Acinetobacter baumannii or Enterococcus faecium through the polymicrobial interactions.

Microbes within an infection impact neighbors' pathogenicity. This study aimed to address in vitro virulence activity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa under the binary interaction with Acinetobacter baumanni...

Tolerance of clinical vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolates against UV-C light from a mobile source.

Admission to a room previously occupied by patients carrying environmentally robust pathogens implies an increased risk of acquiring those pathogens. Therefore, 'No-touch' automated room disinfection ... Susceptibility against UV-C of ten clonally divergent clinical isolates of VRE was determined in comparison to the commonly used test organism Enterococcus hirae ATCC 10541. Ceramic tiles contaminated... Susceptibility to UV-C varied considerably among the strains studied, with the mean value of the most robust strain being up to a power of ten lower compared to the most sensitive strain at both UV-C ... These results indicate that UV-C doses reported in the literature are sufficient for the reduction of commonly used reference strains of enterococci but could be insufficient for the reduction of tole...

The LiaFSR-LiaX System Mediates Resistance of Enterococcus faecium to Peptide Antibiotics and to Aureocin A53- and Enterocin L50-Like Bacteriocins.

Multidrug-resistant Enterococcus faecium strains are currently a leading cause of difficult-to-treat nosocomial infections. The emerging resistance of enterococci to last-resort antibiotics, such as d...

Disk diffusion-based method aids in the detection of vanM-positive Enterococcus faecium with low vancomycin minimum inhibitory concentrations.

We first reported the vanM vancomycin resistance gene in enterococci in Shanghai, China in 2006 and later found it to be the predominant van gene in vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). In this stu...

Phage-Antibiotic Cocktail Rescues Daptomycin and Phage Susceptibility against Daptomycin-Nonsusceptible Enterococcus faecium in a Simulated Endocardial Vegetation

Enterococcus faecium is a difficult-to-treat pathogen with emerging resistance to most clinically available antibiotics. Daptomycin (DAP) is the standard of care, but even high DAP doses (12 mg/kg bod...