Risk Factors Associated with the Development of Infection with Linezolid- and Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus Faecium

Overview

Journal Clin Infect Dis

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2002 Nov 1

PMID 12410489

Citations 20

Authors

Manjunath P Pai

Keith A Rodvold

Paul C Schreckenberger

Ronald D Gonzales

Jennifer M Petrolatti

John P Quinn

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Abstract

This retrospective cohort study revealed that linezolid resistance in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium was dependent on prior linezolid exposure and duration of linezolid therapy. These strains of E. faecium were resistant to the entire class of oxazolidinones.

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