"Keeping us on our toes": a review of what clinicians need to know about vancomycin-variable Enterococcus

• Main Authors: Marten R. Hawkins (Author), Natalia Medvedeva (Author), Hannah Wang (Author), Niaz Banaei (Author), Marisa K. Holubar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Cambridge University Press, 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Enterococcus faecium is a difficult-to-treat gram positive organism with increasing rates of resistance to vancomycin which is commonly mediated through the vanA gene cluster. There have been international reports of E. faecium isolates that are genotypically positive for vanA but phenotypically van...