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Título: Low prevalence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in clinical samples from hospitalized patients of the Canary Islands, Spain
Autores/as: Pérez Hernández, Xiomara
Méndez Álvarez, Sebastián
Delgado Darias, Teresa 
Moreno, Antonio
Reyes Darias, José Antonio
Sierra López, Antonio
Villar, Jesús
González, Agustín
Martín Sánchez, Antonio Manuel 
Macía, Manuel
Claverie Martín, Félix
Clasificación UNESCO: 320103 Microbiología clínica
Palabras clave: Enterococcus
Prevalence
Glycopeptide
Antibiotic resistance
Canary islands
Fecha de publicación: 2002
Publicación seriada: International Microbiology 
Resumen: Over the last decade vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) have emerged as nosocomial pathogens. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of VRE in clinical samples from hospitalized patients in the Canary Islands. From April to November 2000, 437 enterococci were isolated from patients hospitalized at the four main health care centers in those islands. Identification to the species level was performed with the GPS-TA (Vitek 1) or the Wider I system. A PCR assay was used to determine the genotype of glycopeptide resistance (vanA, vanB, vanC1, and vanC2/C3 genes). Only three (0.7%) VRE were detected: one vanA Enterococcus faecalis, and two vanC1 Enterococcus gallinarum. To our knowledge, this is the first VRE study carried out in the Canary Islands hospitals, and the results showed a low prevalence of VRE.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/71263
ISSN: 1139-6709
DOI: 10.1007/s10123-002-0075-y
Fuente: International microbiology: official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology [ISSN 1139-6709], v. 5 (3), p. 107-116
URL: http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=5424379
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