Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2001
Publication Title
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Volume
7
Issue
6
First page number:
1023
Last page number:
1025
Abstract
To date, four of the eight cases of infection by Staphylococcus aureus with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin (vancomycin-intermediate S. aureus [VISA] or glycopeptideintermediate S. aureus [GISA]) have been reported in the United States (1-3). We report a fifth case of VISA infection in the United States, and the first to occur during home health-care therapy. While all previous VISA strains have been oxacillin resistant, one of the two VISA strains identified in this investigation was oxacillin susceptible.
Keywords
Antibiotics; Drug resistance in microorganisms; Home care services; Staphylococcus aureus
Disciplines
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment | Bacteriology | Diseases | Public Health
Language
English
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Repository Citation
Hageman, J. C.,
Pegues, D. A.,
Jepson, C.,
Bell, R. L.,
Guinan, M.,
Ward, K. W.,
Cohen, M. D.,
Hindler, J. A.,
Tenover, F. C.,
McAllister, S. K.,
Kellum, M. E.,
Fridkin, S. K.
(2001).
Vancomycin-Intermediate Staphylococcus aureus in a Home Health-Care Patient.
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 7(6),
1023-1025.
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/community_health_sciences_fac_articles/50
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