Emerging Infectious Diseases (Oct 2000)

Fecal Colonization with Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci in Australia

  • Alexander A. Padiglione,
  • Elizabeth A. Grabsch,
  • Dianne Olden,
  • Margaret Hellard,
  • Martha I. Sinclair,
  • Christopher K Fairley,
  • M. Lindsay Grayson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0605.000514
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 5
pp. 534 – 536

Abstract

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To assess the rate of fecal vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) colonization in Australia, we examined specimens from 1,085 healthy volunteers. VRE was cultured from 2 (0.2%) of 1,085 specimens; both were vanB Enterococcus faecium, identical by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, but with a pattern rare in Melbourne hospitals.

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