The rise of the Enterococcus: beyond vancomycin resistance

Key Points Enterococci are some of the most versatile organisms found to infect hospitalized patients. The epidemiology of enterococcal infections has evolved since the emergence of these pathogens and has seen the rise of Enterococcus faecium as a nosocomial pathogen with serious clinical implicati...

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Published in:	Nature reviews. Microbiology Vol. 10; no. 4; pp. 266 - 278
Main Authors:	Arias, Cesar A., Murray, Barbara E.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.04.2012 Nature Publishing Group
Subjects:	22 41 631/326/22/1434 631/326/41/1470 631/326/41/2531 692/700/565 Animals Anti-Bacterial Agents - pharmacology Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use Antibiotic resistance Antibiotics Antimicrobial agents Bacteria Bacterial Proteins - genetics Bacterial Proteins - metabolism Biomedical and Life Sciences Care and treatment Catheters Colonization Complications and side effects Cross Infection - epidemiology Cross Infection - microbiology Development and progression Drug resistance in microorganisms Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial - genetics Endocarditis Enteritis - epidemiology Enteritis - microbiology Enterococcal infections Enterococcus Enterococcus faecium Enterococcus faecium - drug effects Enterococcus faecium - genetics Enterococcus faecium - pathogenicity Epidemiology Gastrointestinal Tract - microbiology Genomes Gram-negative bacteria Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections - epidemiology Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections - microbiology Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections - transmission Health aspects Hospitals Humans Infectious Diseases Life Sciences Medical Microbiology Microbial Interactions Microbiology Microbiota Multidrug resistant organisms Nosocomial infection Nosocomial infections Parasitology Pathogens Probiotics review-article Risk factors Urogenital system Vancomycin Vancomycin - pharmacology Vancomycin Resistance - genetics Vancomycin Resistance - physiology Virology Virulence Virulence Factors - genetics Virulence Factors - metabolism United States United States > US Texas
ISSN:	1740-1526, 1740-1534, 1740-1534
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