The treatment and control of vancomycin resistant enterococci

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 753-756

  Fraise, Adam P ^a  

^a CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; EDITORIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE;

EID: 0029851336     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/38.5.753     Document Type: Editorial

References (29)

1. Agouridas, C., Bonnefoy, A. & Chantot, J. F. (1993). In vitro activity of RU 004, a novel ketolide highly active against respiratory pathogens. In Program and Abstracts of the Thirty-Fifth Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, San Francisco, 1995. Abstract F158, p. 140. American Society for Microbiology. Washington, DC.
2. Bates, J., Jordens, Z. & Griffiths, D. T. (1994). Farm animals as a putative reservoir for vancomycin-resistant enterococcal infection in man. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 34, 507-16.
3. Boyce, J. M., Opal, S. M., Chow, J. W., Zervos, M. J., Potter-Bynoe, G., Sherman, C. B. et al. (1994). Outbreak of multidrug-resistant Enterococcus faecium with transferable vanB class vancomycin resistance. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 32, 1148-53.
4. Chadwick, P. R. & Oppenheim, B. A. (1994). Vancomycin-resistant enterococci and bedpan washer machines. Lancet 344, 685.
5. Donnelly, J. P., Voss, A., Witte, W. & Murray, B. E. (1996). Does the use in animals of antimicrobial agents, including glycopeptide antibiotics, influence the efficacy of antimicrobial therapy in humans? Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 37, 389-90.
6. Edmond, M. B., Ober, J. F., Weinbaum, D. L., Pfaller, M. A., Hwang, T., Sanford, M. D. & Wenzel, R. P. (1995). Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium bacteraemia: risk factors for infection. Clinical Infectious Disease 20, 1126-33.
7. Eliopoulos, G. M., Wennersen, C. B., Gold, H. S. & Moellering, R. C. (1996). In vitro activities of new oxazolidinone antimicrobial agents against enterococci. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 40, 1745-7.
8. Fraise, A. P., Brenwald, N., Andrews, J. M. & Wise, R. (1995). In vitro activity of two glycylcyclines against enterococci resistant to other agents. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 35, 877-81.
9. Frieden, T. R., Munsiff, S. S., Low, D. E., Willey, B. M., Williams, G., Faur, Y. et al. (1993). Emergence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in New York City. Lancet 342, 76-9.
10. George, R. C. & Uttley, A. H. C. (1989). Susceptibility of enterococci and epidemiology of enterococcal infection in the 1980s. Epidemiology and Infection 103, 403-13.
11. Golledge, C. L., McKenzie, T. & Riley, T. V. (1989). Extended spectrum cephalosporins and Clostridium difficile. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 23, 929-31.
12. Gouid, F. K. & Freeman, R. (1993). Nosocomial infection with microsphere beds. Lancet 342, 241-2.
13. Handwerger, S., Raucher, B., Altarac, D., Monka, J., Morchione, S., Singh, K. V. et al. (1993). Nosocomial outbreak due to Enterococcus faecium highly resistant to vancomycin, penicillin and gentamicin. Clinical Infectious Disease 16, 750-5.
14. Hooper, D. C. & Wolfson, J. S. (1993). Adverse Effects. In Quinolone Antimicrobial Agents, 2nd edn (Hooper, D. C. & Wolfson, J. S., Eds), pp. 495-6. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC.
15. Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) (1995a). Recommendations for preventing the spread of vancomycin resistance. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 16, 105-13.
16. Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) (1995b). Recommendations for preventing the spread of vancomycin resistance. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 44, 12.
17. Karanfil, L. V., Murphy, M., Josephson, A., Gaynes, R., Mandel, L., Hill, B. C. et al. (1992). A cluster of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in an intensive care unit. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 13, 195-200.
18. Klare, I., Heier, H., Claus, H., Reissbrodt, R. & Witte, W. (1995). Van A mediated high-level glycopeptide resistance in Enterococcus faecium from animal husbandry. FEMS Microbiology Letters 125, 165-72.
19. Klugman, K. P. (1990). Pneumococcal resistance to antibiotics. Clinical Microbiology Reviews 3, 171-96.
20. Livornese, L. L., Dias, S., Samel, C., Romanowski, B., Taylor, S., May, P. et al. (1992). Hospital-ac-quired infection with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium transmitted by electronic thermometers. Annals of Internal Medicine 117, 112-6.
21. Morris, J. G., Shay, D. K., Hebden, J. N., McCarter, R. J., Perdue, B. E., Jarvis, W. et al. (1995). Enterococci resistant to multiple antimicrobial agents, including vancomycin. Annals of Internal Medicine 123, 250-9.
22. Mobarakai, N., Quale, J. M. & Landman, D. (1994). Bacterial activities of peptide antibiotics against multidrug-resistant Enterococcus faecium. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 38, 385-7.
23. Nettleman, M. D., Trilla, A., Fredrickson, M. & Pfaller, M. (1991). Assigning responsibility: using feedback to achieve sustained control of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus. American Journal of Medicine 91, Suppl. B, 228S-232S.
24. Paul, S. M., Finelli, L., Crane, G. & Spitalny, K. C. (1995). Statewide surveillance for antibiotic-resistant bacteria - New Jersey, 1992-1994. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 44, 504-6.
25. Rhinehart, E., Smith, N. E., Wennersten, C., Gorss, E., Freeman, J., Eliopoulos, G. M. et al. (1990). Rapid dissemination of βMactamase-producing aminoglycoside-resistant Enterococcus faecalis among patients and staff on an infant-toddler surgical ward. New England Journal of Medicine 323, 1814-8.
26. Rubin, L. G., Tucci, V., Cercenado, E., Eliopoulos, G. & Isenberg, H. D. (1992). Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in hospitalised children. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 13, 700-5.
27. Wade, J. J. (1995). The emergence of Enterococcus faecium resistant to glycopeptides and other standard agents - a preliminary report. Journal of Hospital Infection 30, Suppl., 483-93.
28. Woodford, N., Morrison, D., Johnson, A. P. & George, R. C. (1993). Antimicrobial resistance amongst enterococci isolated in the United Kingdom, a reference laboratory perspective. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 32, 344-6.
29. Working Party of the Hospital Infection Society and British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (1990). Revised guidelines for the control of epidemic methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Journal of Hospital Infection 16, 351-77.