Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci: Epidemiology, Infection Prevention, and Control

Infect Dis Clin North Am. 2021 Dec;35(4):953-968. doi: 10.1016/j.idc.2021.07.002.

Abstract

Vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE) is a pathogen of growing concern due to increasing development of antibiotic resistance, increasing length of hospitalizations and excess mortality. The utility of some infection control practices are debatable, as newer developments in infection prevention strategies continued to be discovered. This article summarizes the significance of VRE and VRE transmission, along with highlighting key changes in infection control practices within the past 5 years.

Keywords: Antimicrobial stewardship; Enterococci; Health-care–associated infections; Infection control; VRE.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Antimicrobial Stewardship
  • Child
  • Cross Infection / prevention & control*
  • Drug Resistance, Multiple
  • Enterococcus / drug effects*
  • Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / prevention & control*
  • Humans
  • Infection Control / organization & administration
  • Pediatrics
  • Vancomycin / pharmacology*
  • Vancomycin / therapeutic use
  • Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci*

Substances

  • Vancomycin