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Absence of Rectal Colonization With Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci Among High-Risk Pediatric Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Adnan Trabulsi ,
Anne-Marie Glover ,
Shirley F. Reising  and
Celia D. C. Christie
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Abstract

We prospectively surveyed for rectal colonization with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus among 93 high-risk pediatric patients who were hospitalized at least 5 (median, 20) days. Fifty-two patients (56%) had enterococcal colonization; none had active infection with Enterococcus. All enterococci were vancomycin-susceptible (minimum inhibitory concentration ≤4 μg/mL). Associated exposures included recent antibiotics (50, 96%), surgical procedures (26, 58%), and immunosuppression (15, 29%).

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , February 1998 , pp. 109 - 111
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1998

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