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A case report of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis colonization of a femoral wound in central europe

Dombrádi, Zsuzsanna Rita and Bodnár, F. and Orosi, Piroska and Dombrádi, Viktor Béla and Szabó, Judit (2009) A case report of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis colonization of a femoral wound in central europe. CENTRAL EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, 4 (2). pp. 259-261. ISSN 1895-1058

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Abstract

Wound infection and colonization following cardiac surgery is well known but rarely caused by vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). A case of femoral wound colonization by vanA carrying Enterococcus faecalis in a patient following mitral prolapse surgery is described in this report.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Femoral wound • Colonization • VRE • Cardiac surgery
Subjects: R Medicine / orvostudomány > RA Public aspects of medicine / orvostudomány társadalmi szerepe
R Medicine / orvostudomány > RA Public aspects of medicine / orvostudomány társadalmi szerepe > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine / közegészségügy, higiénia, betegség-megelőzés
R Medicine / orvostudomány > RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology / terápia, gyógyszertan
R Medicine / orvostudomány > RS Pharmacy and materia medica / gyógyszerészet, gyógyászati eszközök
SWORD Depositor: MTMT SWORD
Depositing User: MTMT SWORD
Date Deposited: 26 Mar 2014 09:43
Last Modified: 26 Mar 2014 09:43
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/11150

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