Abstract
We report the first outbreak of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium colonization and infection among inpatients in the hematology ward of an acute tertiary care public hospital in Singapore. Two cases of bacteremia and 4 cases of gastrointestinal carriage were uncovered before implementation of strict infection control measures resulted in control of the outbreak.
MeSH terms
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Adult
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Aged
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Disease Outbreaks*
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Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
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Enterococcus faecium / isolation & purification
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Enterococcus faecium / pathogenicity*
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Female
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Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / epidemiology*
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Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / microbiology
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Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / mortality
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Humans
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Singapore / epidemiology
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Vancomycin Resistance*