Fakhri Haghi, Vahid Lohrasbi, Habib Zeighami
BACKGROUND: Multidrug resistant (MDR) enterococci are important nosocomial pathogens causing serious problem in hospitalized patients. The aim of present study was to investigate the frequency of high-level aminoglycoside-resistant and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) and virulence encoding genes in enterococci isolated from hospitalized patients. METHODS: A total of 100 enterococci isolated from urine samples of hospitalized patients with symptomatic urinary tract infections were investigated for antimicrobial susceptibility, the frequency of aminoglycoside and vancomycin resistance genes (including aac (6')-Ie-aph (2")-Ia, aph (3')-IIIa, ant (4')-Ia, aph (2")-Ic, aph (2")-Ib, aph (2")-Id, ant (3″)-III, ant (6')-Ia, vanA, vanB and vanC) and virulence encoding genes (including gelE, PAI, esp, ace, cyl, hyl and sprE)...
August 27, 2019: BMC Infectious Diseases