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Comparative in vitro activity of quinupristin/dalfopristin against multidrug resistant Enterococcus faecium
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Results of this study show quinupristin/dalfopristin to have excellent in vitro activity versus multiple resistant E. faecium.About:
This article is published in Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease.The article was published on 1996-07-01. It has received 24 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Dalfopristin & Quinupristin/dalfopristin.read more
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Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
Aki Okazaki,Matthew B Avison +1 more
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Clinical prevalence, antimicrobial susceptibility, and geographic resistance patterns of enterococci: results from the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program, 1997-1999.
TL;DR: The results of this study confirm the worldwide trend in increasing occurrence of enterococci and the emerging pattern of antimicrobial resistance among such isolates.
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Antimicrobial activity of quinupristin-dalfopristin (RP 59500, Synercid) tested against over 28,000 recent clinical isolates from 200 medical centers in the United States and Canada.
TL;DR: Overall, quinupristin-dalfopristin was consistently active against major Gram-positive pathogens in North America, regardless of resistance patterns to other drug classes and geographic location of their isolation.
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Antimicrobial Resistance in Enterococci Isolated from Turkey Flocks Fed Virginiamycin
L. A. Welton,L. A. Thal,Mary Beth Perri,Susan M. Donabedian,J. McMahon,Joseph W. Chow,Marcus J. Zervos +6 more
TL;DR: Results of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) indicated there were 11 PFGE types of E. faecium that were in more than one group of flock cultures, and there were no vancomycin-resistant enterococci.
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Quinupristin-Dalfopristin Resistance among Gram-Positive Bacteria in Taiwan
Kwen-Tay Luh,Po-Ren Hsueh,Lee-Jene Teng,Hui-Ju Pan,Yu-Chi Chen,Jang-Jih Lu,Jiunn Jong Wu,Shen-Wu Ho +7 more
TL;DR: To understand quinupristin-dalfopristin resistance among clinical isolates of gram-positive bacteria in Taiwan, where this agent is not yet available for clinical use, 1,287 nonduplicate isolates recovered from January 1996 to December 1999 were evaluated for in vitro susceptibility to quin upristin -dalfOPristin and other newer antimicrobial agents.
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The life and times of the Enterococcus.
TL;DR: Enterococci are important human pathogens that are increasingly resistant to antimicrobial agents, including resistance to cephalosporins, clindamycin, tetracycline, and penicillinase-resistant penicillins such as oxacillin, among others.
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TL;DR: This well-respected reference continues to serve as the sole major publication providing step-by-step descriptions that enable clinical microbiologists and their staffs to perform all analyses and their control from the receipt of the specimen to the final report.
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Major trends in the microbial etiology of nosocomial infection
TL;DR: Major shifts in the etiology of nosocomial infection have occurred in the decade of the 1980s, and the shifts are away from more easily treated pathogens toward more resistant pathogens with fewer options for therapy.
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Identification of Enterococcus species isolated from human infections by a conventional test scheme.
Richard R. Facklam,M D Collins +1 more
TL;DR: Streptococci (206 cultures) previously identified as enterococci were retrieved from storage and reidentified by using tests designed to identify species of the genus Enterococcus by using DNA-DNA hybridizations to assure correct identification.
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Genetics and mechanisms of glycopeptide resistance in enterococci.
Michel Arthur,Patrice Courvalin +1 more
TL;DR: The experimental approaches used to characterize the molecular basis of VanA resistance are reviewed and the similarities and differences between the VanA phenotype and other phenotypes are briefly discussed.