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Fecal colonization with vancomycin-resistant enterococci in Australia
A A Padiglione1, E A Grabsch, D Olden
1Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne, Australia.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|February 24, 2001
Abstract:
To assess the rate of fecal vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) colon ization in Austalia, we examined specimens from 1,085 healthy volunteers. VRE was cultured from 2(0.2%) of 1,085 specimens; both were vanB Enter ococcus faecium, identical by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, but with a pattern rare in Melbourne hospitals.