The changing molecular epidemiology and establishment of endemicity of vancomycin resistance in enterococci at one hospital over a 6-year period

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 163-171

  Kim, Woo Joo ^a,b   Weinstein, Robert A ^a   Hayden, Mary K ^a,c  

^a RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GENTAMICIN; GLYCOPEPTIDE; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; CHICAGO; CROSS INFECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 0032904131     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/314564     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Nosocomial enterococci resistant to vancomycin - United States, 1989-1993. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 1998;42:597-9.
2. Slaughter S, Hayden MK, Nathan C, et al. A comparison of the effect of universal glove and gown use with glove use alone in the acquisition of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in a medical intensive care unit. Ann Intern Med 1996;125:448-56.
3. Morris JG, Shay DK, Hebden JN, et al. Enterococci resistant to multiple antimicrobial agents, including vancomycin. Establishment of endemicity in a university medical center. Ann Intern Med 1995;123:250-9.
4. Tucci V, Haran MA, Isenberg HD. Epidemiology and control of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in an adult and children's hospital. Am J Infect Control 1997;25:371-6.
5. Bonten MJM, Hayden MK, Nathan C, et al. The epidemiology of patient colonization and environmental contamination with vancomycin-resistant enterococci: the challenge for infection control. Lancet 1996;348:1615-9.
6. Livornese LL, Dias S, Samuel C, et al. Hospital-acquired infection with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium transmitted by electronic thermometers. Ann Intern Med 1992;117:112-6.
7. Porwancher R, Sheth A, Remphrey BS, Taylor E, Hinkle C, Zervos M. Epidemiological study of hospital-acquired infection with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium: possible transmission by an electronic earprobe thermometer. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 1997;18:771-3.
8. Boyce JM, Opal SM, Chow JW, et al. Outbreak of multidrug-resistant Enterococcus faecium with transferable vanB class vancomycin resistance. J Clin Microbiol 1994;32:1148-53.
9. Boyce JM, Mermel LA, Zervos MJ, et al. Controlling vancomycin-resistant enterococci. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 1995;16:634-7.
10. Rice LB, Carial LL, Donskey CL, Rudin SD. Transferable, plasmid-mediated vanB-type glycopeptide resistance in Enterococcus faecium. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1998;42:963-4.
11. Facklam RR, Collins MD. Identification of Enterococcus species isolated from human infections by a conventional test scheme. J Clin Microbiol 1989;27:731-4.
12. Matushek MG, Bonten MJM, Hayden MK. Rapid preparation of bacterial DNA for pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. J Clin Microbiol 1996;34:2598-600.
13. Tenover FC, Arbeit RD, Goering RV, et al. Interpreting chromosomal DNA restriction patterns produced by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis: criteria for bacterial strain typing. J Clin Microbiol 1995;33:2233-9.
14. Dutka-Malen S, Evers S, Courvalin P. Detection of glycopeptide resistance genotypes and identification to the species level of clinically relevant enterococci by PCR. J Clin Microbiol 1995;33:24-7.
15. Free L, Sahm DF. Detection of enterococcal vancomycin resistance by multiplex PCR. In: Persing DH, ed. PCR protocols for emerging infectious diseases, a supplement to diagnostic molecular microbiology: principles and applications. Washington, DC: ASM Press, 1996:150-5.
16. Brisson-Noël A, Dutka-Malen S, Molinas C, Leclerq R, Courvalin P. Cloning and heterospecific expression of the resistance determinant vanA encoding high-level resistance to glycopeptides in Enterococcus faecium BM4147. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1990;34:924-7.
17. Handwerger S, Pucci MJ, Kolokathis A. Vancomycin resistance is encoded on a pheromone response plasmid in Enterococcus faecium 228. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1990;34:358-60.
18. Sahm DF, Kissinger J, Gilmore MS, et al. In vitro susceptibility studies of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1989;33:1588-91.
19. National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards. Methods for dilution antimicrobial susceptibility tests for bacteria that grow aerobically; approved standard M7-A4. Villanova, PA: NCCLS, 1997.
20. National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards. Performance standards for antimicrobial disk susceptibility tests; approved standard M2-A6. Villanova, PA: NCCLS, 1997.
21. Picken R. Polymerase chain reaction primers and probes derived from flagellin gene sequences for specific detection of the agents of Lyme disease and North American relapsing fever. J Clin Microbiol 1992;30:99-114.
22. Jacob AE, Hobbs SJ. Conjugal transfer of plasmid-borne multiple antibiotic resistance in Streptococcus faecalis var. zymogenes. J Bacteriol 1974;117:360-72.
23. Hayden MK, Trenholme GM, Schultz JE, Sahm DF. In vivo development of teicoplanin resistance in a VanB Enterococcus faecium isolate. J Infect Dis 1993;167:1224-7.
24. Hayden MK, Picken RN, Sahm DF. Heterogenous expression of glycopeptide resistance in enterococci associated with transfer of vanB. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1997;41:872-4.
25. Shay DK, Maloney SA, Montecalvo M, et al. Epidemiology and mortality risk of vancomycin-resistant enterococcal bloodstream infections. J Infect Dis 1995;172:993-1000.
26. Ulana BR, Noskin GA, Suriano T, Cooper I, Reisberg BE, Peterson LR. Use of in-house studies of molecular epidemiology and full species identification for controlling spread of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis isolates. J Clin Microbiol 1996;34:2129-32.
27. Pegues DA, Pegues CF, Hibberd PL, et al. Emergence and dissemination of a highly vancomycin-resistant vanA strain of Enterococcus faecium at a large teaching hospital. J Clin Microbiol 1997;35:1565-70.
28. Friedkin SK, Yokoe DS, Whitney CG, Onderdonk A, Hooper DC. Epidemiology of a dominant clonal strain of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium at separate hospitals in Boston, Massachusetts. J Clin Microbiol 1998;36:965-70.
29. Willey BM, Arce F, Large G, et al. Infection of a hospital's endemic vancomycin-susceptible enterococci with vanA resistance genes [abstract C-156]. In: Program and abstracts of the 37th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (Toronto). Washington, DC: American Society for Microbiology, 1997:73.
30. Handwerger S, Skobel J. Identification of chromosomal mobile element conferring high-level vancomycin resistance in Enterococcus faecium. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1995;39:2446-53.
31. Quintiliani R Jr, Courvalin P. Conjugal transfer of the vancomycin-resistance determinant vanB between enterococci involves movement of large genetic elements from chromosome to chromosome. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1994;119:359-64.
32. Sahm DF, Free L, Smith C, Eveland M, Mundy LM. Rapid characterization schemes for surveillance isolates of vancomycin-resistant enterococci. J Clin Microbiol 1997;35:2026-30.
33. Chow JW, Kuritza A, Shlaes DM, Green M, Sahm DF, Zervos MJ. Clonal spread of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium between hospitals in two states. J Clin Microbiol 1993;31:1609-11.
34. Mato R, de Lencastre H, Roberts RB, Tomasz A. Multiplicity of genetic backgrounds among vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolates recovered from an outbreak in a New York City hospital. Microb Drug Resist 1996;3:309-17.