Search results for "Vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium"

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Vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) vertebral osteomyelitis after uneventful spinal surgery: A case report and literature review

2017

Abstract Objective Case report and literature review. Background Enterococcus faecium is an emerging pathogen responsible for post procedural infections in patients who have undergone spinal decompression surgery. In this case report, the authors discuss and review recent literature on approaches to post-operative spinal infection. Case report We herein report the case of a 55-year-old HIV-negative Caucasian Italian woman who showed vertebral osteomyelitis with abscesses around the interbody cage caused by an Enterococcus faecium vancomycin resistant gen-Van A, following a Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (TLIF). The same strain was detected in disc biopsy, urine culture and rectal sw…

0301 basic medicinemedicine.medical_specialtySettore MED/07 - Microbiologia E Microbiologia ClinicaEnterococcus faecium; Spinal surgery; Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (TLIF); Vertebral osteomyelitis; Surgery; Neurology (clinical)Settore MED/17 - Malattie Infettive030106 microbiologyEnterococcus faeciumlcsh:Surgerylcsh:RC346-42903 medical and health sciencesEmerging pathogen0302 clinical medicineAntibiotic resistanceVertebral osteomyelitisBiopsymedicineVertebral osteomyelitislcsh:Neurology. Diseases of the nervous systemVancomycin resistant Enterococcus faeciumTransforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (TLIF)medicine.diagnostic_testbiologybusiness.industrySettore MED/27 - Neurochirurgialcsh:RD1-811biology.organism_classificationmedicine.diseaseSpinal surgerySurgerySurgeryImplantSpinal surgeryNeurology (clinical)Vertebral osteomyelitibusiness030217 neurology & neurosurgeryEnterococcus faeciumInterdisciplinary Neurosurgery
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Occurence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in patient isolates and aquatic environment during a period between 2004 and 2010

2012

Microbiology (medical)Infectious DiseasesAquatic environmentPeriod (gene)educationIn patientGeneral MedicineBiologyMicrobiologyVancomycin resistant Enterococcus faeciumInternational Journal of Infectious Diseases
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