Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci
"Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Strains of the genus Enterococcus that are resistant to the antibiotic VANCOMYCIN. The enterococci become resistant by acquiring plasmids carrying genes for VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE.
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D065507
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B03.353.750.250.250.650 B03.510.550.250.250.650
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 17 | 9 | 26 |
| 2018 | 24 | 9 | 33 |
| 2019 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci" by people in Profiles.
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A nosocomial cluster of vancomycin resistant enterococci among COVID-19 patients in an intensive care unit. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2020 09 22; 9(1):154.
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Incidental COVID-19 in a heart-kidney transplant recipient with malnutrition and recurrent infections: Implications for the SARS-CoV-2 immune response. Transpl Infect Dis. 2020 Dec; 22(6):e13367.
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Outbreak of Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in Interventional Radiology: Detection Through Whole-genome Sequencing-based Surveillance. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 05 23; 70(11):2336-2343.
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Antagonizing Vancomycin Resistance in Enterococcus by Surface Localized Antimicrobial Display-Derived Peptides. ACS Infect Dis. 2020 05 08; 6(5):761-767.
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Dramatic rise in VRE infections linked to abandoned control measures. CMAJ. 2019 08 06; 191(31):E876.
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Whole-genome sequencing revealed independent emergence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium causing sequential outbreaks over 3 years in a tertiary care hospital. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2019 Jun; 38(6):1163-1170.
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Molecular characterization of vancomycin-resistant enterococci isolated from a hospital in Beijing, China. J Microbiol Immunol Infect. 2019 Jun; 52(3):433-442.
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Utilizing genomic analyses to investigate the first outbreak of vanA vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus in Australia with emergence of daptomycin non-susceptibility. J Med Microbiol. 2019 Mar; 68(3):303-308.
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The changing landscape of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in Australia: a population-level genomic study. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2018 12 01; 73(12):3268-3278.
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Comparative Epidemiology of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci Colonization in an Acute-Care Hospital and Its Affiliated Intermediate- and Long-Term Care Facilities in Singapore. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2018 12; 62(12).