De Novo Daptomycin-Nonsusceptible Enterococcal Infections

Abstract

Potential emergence of enterococcal daptomycin nonsusceptibility among patients with no prior exposure to daptomycin poses clinical and public health challenges. We found that development of infections with daptomycin-nonsusceptible enterococci in these patients could be associated with sporadic emergence and clonal spread.

Keywords

• Daptomycin
• Enterococcus
• resistance
• non-susceptibility
• bacteria
• enteric infections