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In vitro susceptibility of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) to fosfomycin
Mary Beth Perri1, Ellie Hershberger, Mihaela Ionescu
1Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI, USA.
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
|May 15, 2002
Abstract:
We evaluated the in vitro activity of fosfomycin against 75 clinical isolates of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). Using the NCCLS breakpoint for susceptibility of urinary tract isolates to fosfomycin (MIC > or = 256), 51 out of 52 Enterococcus faecium and all Enterococcus faecalis isolates tested were susceptible or intermediate to fosfomycin.