Emergence of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium ST 80 in Pakistan

Surg Infect (Larchmt). 2019 Sep;20(6):524-525. doi: 10.1089/sur.2019.005. Epub 2019 May 17.

Authors

Linda Hadjadj¹, Muhammad Ali Syed², Jamil Bushra³, Shahid Ahmad Abbasi⁴, Jean-Marc Rolain¹

Affiliations

¹ 1Aix Marseille Université, IRD, APHM, MEPHI, IHU Méditerranée Infection, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Marseille, France.
² 2Department of Microbiology, University of Haripur, Haripur, Pakistan.
³ 3National University of Medical Sciences, The Mall, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
⁴ 4Department of Pathology, Fauji Foundation Hospital, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

PMID: 31099714
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2019.005

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Bacterial Proteins / genetics
Bacteriological Techniques
Carbon-Oxygen Ligases / genetics
Enterococcus faecium / classification
Enterococcus faecium / genetics
Enterococcus faecium / isolation & purification*
Genotype*
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / epidemiology
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / microbiology*
Hospitals
Humans
Inpatients
Molecular Typing
Pakistan / epidemiology
Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization
Urine / microbiology
Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci / classification
Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci / genetics
Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci / isolation & purification*

Substances

Bacterial Proteins
VanA ligase, Bacteria
Carbon-Oxygen Ligases