Emergence of pstS-Null Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium Clone ST1478, Canada, 2013-2018

Emergence of pstS-Null Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium Clone ST1478, Canada, 2013-2018

Rates of vancomycin-resistant enterococci bloodstream infections have remained relatively low in Canada. We recently observed an increase of 113% in these infections rates, which coincided with emergence of Enterococcus faecium pstS-null sequence type 1478. The proportion of this sequence type incre...

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Veröffentlicht in:Emerging infectious diseases 2020-09, Vol.26 (9), p.2247-2250
Hauptverfasser: McCracken, Melissa, Mitchell, Robyn, Smith, Stephanie, Hota, Susy, Conly, John, Du, Tim, Embil, John, Johnston, Lynn, Ormiston, Debbie, Parsonage, Jennifer, Simor, Andrew, Wong, Alice, Golding, George
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Sprache:eng
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Analysis
Antibiotics
Antimicrobial agents
antimicrobial resistance
bacteria
Cloning
Disease control
Dispatch
emergence
Emergence of
Enterococcus faecium
Epidemiology
Genomes
Health aspects
Health care costs
Health surveillance
Hospitals
Infection
Infectious diseases
Intensive care
Laboratories
Methicillin
Microbial drug resistance
Microbiology
Mortality
Nosocomial infections
Null Vancomycin-Resistant
Patients
pstS-null vancomycin-resistant clone ST1478
Public health
Staphylococcus infections
Transplants & implants
Vancomycin
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Zusammenfassung:Rates of vancomycin-resistant enterococci bloodstream infections have remained relatively low in Canada. We recently observed an increase of 113% in these infections rates, which coincided with emergence of Enterococcus faecium pstS-null sequence type 1478. The proportion of this sequence type increased from 2.7% to 38.7% for all tested isolates from 2013-2018.
ISSN:1080-6040
1080-6059
DOI:10.3201/eid2609.201576