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Vancomycin-resistant enterococcal infections triple in 1990s.(News)
Publication: Skin & Allergy News Publication Date: 01-JUL-04 Author: Zoler, Mitchel L.
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COPYRIGHT 2004 International Medical News Group
PHILADELPHIA -- The rate of infection by vancomycin-resistant enterococci of patients in intensive care units in U.S. hospitals tripled between 1992 and 2002, according to data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In 1992, 8% of the enterococcal isolates from infected patients in hospital intensive care units were vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). This fraction jumped to 30% by 2002, Melissa A. Morrison reported in a poster at the annual meeting of the...
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