Environmental survival of vancomycin-sensitive ampicillin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (AREfm).

Ampicillin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (AREfm) has gained increased footholds in many hospital intensive care units (ICUs) and belongs to specific hospital-adapted E. faecium sub-populations. Three AREfm strains survived in an in vitro survival setting for approximately 5.

Triple swabbing allows sensitive MRSA detection in dermatologic patients of a university tertiary care hospital.

Background: To optimize preventive measures to control MRSA, we investigated retrospectively the suitability of a multiple site screening model and the optimal sampling technique to detect MRSA in a university-based phlebology and skin cancer center in Germany.

Patients And Methods: During 4.5 years samples of 3 712 inpatients in a dermatologic department were analyzed for MRSA by conventional microbiologic cultures and in parallel by PCR.

Ciprofloxacin-induced hemorrhagic vasculitis.

Ciprofloxacin-induced hemorrhagic vasculitis is a rare side effect. It has only been described in 10 case reports since 1989. However, recently we were confronted with two cases within 1 month.

Amoxicillin/clavulanate (Augmentin) resistant Escherichia coli in bacterial peritonitis after abdominal surgery--clinical outcome in ICU patients.

Bacterial resistance to antimicrobial agents is of great concern to clinicians. Patient outcome after infection is mainly dependent on the sensitivity of the bacterium to the agent used. We retrospectively studied 89 postoperative intensive care unit (ICU) patients with proven Escherichia coli peritonitis and investigated the clinical consequences of the E.

Concentration-dependency of beta-lactam-induced filament formation in Gram-negative bacteria.

Ceftazidime and cefotaxime are beta-lactam antibiotics with dose-related affinities for penicillin-binding protein (PBP)-3 and PBP-1. At low concentrations, these antibiotics inhibit PBP-3, leading to filament formation. Filaments are long strands of non-dividing bacteria that contain enhanced quantities of endotoxin molecules.

Comparison of an enrichment broth-enhanced commercial PCR procedure versus bacteriological culture for separating non-colonized from suspected or colonized MRSA individuals.

The aim of the study presented here was to evaluate an enrichment broth-enhanced commercial PCR procedure for excluding the presence of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in patient samples in less than 36 h. In The Netherlands to date, all MRSA epidemics have been successfully controlled with the Dutch search-and-destroy policy. However, PCR facilitates more rapid screening for MRSA than traditional culture.

MRSA in nursing homes in the Netherlands 1989 to 1998: a developing reservoir?

The prevalence of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Dutch nursing homes in 1998 was higher than that found in 1989 to 1997. The increased prevalence of MRSA could lead to colonisation outside these nursing homes. A study of the prevale

Dutch measures to control MRSA and the expanding European Union.

The Dutch national policy for the prevention of spread of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has shown that it is possible to suppress and prevent MRSA from becoming endemic in hospitals. Implementation of effective measures against MRSA w

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) as a community strain.

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has become particularly well known in association with hospital acquired infections but is also known to have infected people in the community. We define cases of community acquired MRSA infection as the

[An outbreak of scarlet fever, impetigo and pharyngitis caused by the same Streptococcus pyogenes type T4M4 in a primary school].

Unlabelled: EPIDEMIC: Following the notification of an unusual number of scarlet fever cases within the same primary school, the epidemiological and clinical features of the outbreak were investigated. Questionnaire information about the cases was collected from parents and general practitioners per telephone. Throat specimens were taken, before and after treatment, for culturing and specific typing of streptococci was performed to determine transmission.