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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, May 1999, p. 1638-1641, Vol. 37, No. 5
0095-1137/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Survey of Antibiotic Resistance among Enterococci in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

R. R. Reinert,1,* G. Conrads,1 J. J. Schlaeger,1 G. Werner,2 W. Witte,2 R. Lütticken,1 and I. Klare2

National Reference Center for Streptococci, Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Aachen, D-52057 Aachen,1 and National Reference Center for Staphylococci, Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode Branch, D-38855 Wernigerode,2 Germany

Received 31 July 1998/Returned for modification 13 October 1998/Accepted 7 January 1999

A surveillance study on antibiotic resistance of enterococcal isolates (n = 730) was carried out in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in 1997. Resistance rates to ampicillin (7.4%), high-level gentamicin (15.0%), high-level streptomycin (27.9%), ciprofloxacin (37.9%), vancomycin (1.5%), and teicoplanin (1.5%) were determined. All vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) carried the vanA gene. SmaI and ApaI macrorestriction patterns indicated an intra- and interhospital spread of VRE.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: National Reference Center for Streptococci, Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Aachen, D-52057 Aachen, Germany. Phone: 49 241 8089787. Fax: 49 241 8888483. E-mail: Reinert{at}rwth-Aachen.de.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, May 1999, p. 1638-1641, Vol. 37, No. 5
0095-1137/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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