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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, May 1997, 1248-1250, Vol 35, No. 5
Copyright © 1997 by the American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

A PCR assay for identification of Enterococcus faecium

S Cheng, FK McCleskey, MJ Gress, JM Petroziello, R Liu, H Namdari, K Beninga, A Salmen and VG DelVecchio
Institute of Molecular Biology and Medicine, University of Scranton, Pennsylvania 18510, USA.

Enterococcus faecium has recently emerged as a serious nosocomial pathogen. The prevalence and severity of enterococcal infections, the mortality rate from such infections, and the antibiotic resistance of enterococci are often species dependent. Since conventional biochemical methods fail to differentiate E. faecium from certain newly described enterococcal species, a PCR-based assay was developed for the rapid identification of E. faecium.

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