VANCOMYCIN-RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCI

Molecular basis for vancomycin resistance in Enterococcus faecium BM4147: biosynthesis of a depsipeptide peptidoglycan precursor by vancomycin resistance proteins VanH and VanA

1991 • 640 citations

Co-transfer of vancomycin and other resistance genes fromEnterococcus faecalisNCTC 12201 toStaphylococcus aureus

1992 • 610 citations

Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium Bacteremia: Risk Factors for Infection

1995 • 520 citations

Enterococci Resistant to Multiple Antimicrobial Agents, Including Vancomycin: Establishment of Endemicity in a University Medical Center

1995 • 514 citations

Farm animals as a putative reservoir for vancomycin-resistant enterococcal infection in man

1994 • 432 citations

Emergence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in New York City

1993 • 354 citations

A Comparison of the Effect of Universal Use of Gloves and Gowns with That of Glove Use Alone on Acquisition of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci in a Medical Intensive Care Unit

1996 • 332 citations

Epidemiology and Mortality Risk of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcal Bloodstream Infections

1995 • 322 citations

vanA-mediated high-level glycopeptide resistance inEnterococcus faeciumfrom animal husbandry

1995 • 322 citations

Manipulation of a Hospital Antimicrobial Formulary to Control an Outbreak of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci

1996 • 317 citations

Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcal Bacteremia: Natural History and Attributable Mortality

1996 • 308 citations

Recovery of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci on Fingertips and Environmental Surfaces

1995 • 300 citations

Enterococcus faeciumStrains withvanA-Mediated High-Level Glycopeptide Resistance Isolated from Animal Foodstuffs and Fecal Samples of Humans in the Community

1995 • 267 citations

Differences in Outcomes for Patients with Bacteremia Due to Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium or Vancomycin-Susceptible E. faecium

1996 • 259 citations

Risk Factors Associated with Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium Infection or Colonization in 145 Matched Case Patients and Control Patients

1996 • 252 citations

Nosocomial Enterococci Resistant to Vancomycin—United States, 1989-1993

1993 • 248 citations

Dimerization and membrane anchors in extracellular targeting of vancomycin group antibiotics

1995 • 248 citations

Influence of Oral Glycopeptides on the Fecal Flora of Human Volunteers: Selection of Highly Glycopeptide-Resistant Enterococci

1996 • 243 citations

Regulation of VanB-type vancomycin resistance gene expression by the VanS(B)-VanR (B) two-component regulatory system in Enterococcus faecalis V583

1996 • 226 citations

Identification of vancomycin resistance protein VanA as a D-alanine:D-alanine ligase of altered substrate specificity

1991 • 223 citations

Resistance of enterococci to glycopeptides

1990 • 193 citations

Glycopeptide resistance mediated by enterococcal transposon Tn 1546 requires production of VanX for hydrolysis of D‐alanyl‐D‐alanine

1994 • 192 citations

Vancomycin-resistant enterococci colonizing the intestinal tracts of hospitalized patients

1995 • 182 citations

Stool Carriage, Clinical Isolation, and Mortality During an Outbreak of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci in Hospitalized Medical and/or Surgical Patients

1995 • 175 citations

Nosocomial Infections with Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus fuecium in Liver Transplant Recipients: Risk Factors for Acquisition and Mortality

1996 • 173 citations

Quantitative analysis of the metabolism of soluble cytoplasmic peptidoglycan precursors of glycopeptide‐resistant enterococci

1996 • 173 citations

Modification of peptidoglycan precursors is a common feature of the low-level vancomycin-resistant VANB-type Enterococcus D366 and of the naturally glycopeptide-resistant species Lactobacillus casei, Pediococcus pentosaceus, Leuconostoc mesenteroides, and Enterococcus gallinarum

1994 • 172 citations

Presence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in farm and pet animals

1996 • 172 citations

Emergence of vancomycin resistance in the genus Streptococcus: characterization of a vanB transferable determinant in Streptococcus bovis

1997 • 172 citations

In Vivo Development of Teicoplanin Resistance in a VanB Enterococcus faecium Isolate

1993 • 171 citations

Natural History of Colonization with Vancoimycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium

1995 • 163 citations

The vanZ gene of Tn1546 from enterococcus faecium BM4147 confers resistance to teicoplanin

1995 • 162 citations

Vancomycin-resistant Leuconostoc mesenteroides and Lactobacillus casei synthesize cytoplasmic peptidoglycan precursors that terminate in lactate

1994 • 160 citations

Analysis of genes encoding D-alanine-D-alanine ligase-related enzymes in Enterococcus casseliflavus and Enterococcus flavescens

1994 • 160 citations

The vanB Gene Confers Various Levels of Self-Transferable Resistance to Vancomycin in Enterococci

1993 • 155 citations

Emerging multiply resistant enterococci among clinical isolates I. Prevalence data from 97 medical center surveillance study in the United States

1995 • 142 citations

Controlling Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci

1995 • 140 citations

Clinical and Molecular Epidemiology of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium During Its Emergence in a City in Southern Texas

1995 • 134 citations

Identification of chromosomal mobile element conferring high-level vancomycin resistance in Enterococcus faecium

1995 • 134 citations

Chloramphenicol for the Treatment of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcal Infections

1995 • 129 citations

Heterogeneity of the vanA gene cluster in clinical isolates of enterococci from the northeastern United States

1995 • 126 citations

The VanS sensor negatively controls VanR-mediated transcriptional activation of glycopeptide resistance genes of Tn1546 and related elements in the absence of induction

1997 • 123 citations

Conjugal transfer of the vancomycin resistance determinantvanBbetween enterococci involves the movement of large genetic elements from chromosome to chromosome

1994 • 123 citations

Enterococci Acquire New Kinds of Resistance

1997 • 123 citations

The vanB gene of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis V583 is structurally related to genes encoding d-Ala:d-Ala ligases and glycopeptide-resistance proteins VanA and VanC

1993 • 120 citations

Analysis of peptidoglycan precursors in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus gallinarum BM4174

1994 • 116 citations

Overexpression, Purification, and Characterization of VanX, a D-, D-Dipeptidase which Is Essential for Vancomycin Resistance in Enterococcus faecium BM4147

1995 • 115 citations

Emergence of high-level resistance to glycopeptides in Enterococcus gallinarum and Enterococcus casseliflavus

1994 • 110 citations

The challenge of vancomycin-resistant enterococci: A clinical and epidemiologic study

1995 • 108 citations

Specificity of induction of glycopeptide resistance genes in Enterococcus faecalis

1996 • 100 citations

van A-Mediated vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus spp. in sewage

1994 • 99 citations

Emergence of Increased Resistance to Quinupristin/ Dalfopristin During Therapy for Enterococcus faecium Bacteremia

1997 • 99 citations

Structural relationship between the vancomycin resistance protein VanH and 2-hydroxycarboxylic acid dehydrogenases

1991 • 96 citations

van A genes in vancomycin-resistant clinical isolates of Oerskovia turbata and Arcanobacterium (Corynebacterium) haemolyticum

1995 • 94 citations

Enteric eradication of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium with oral bacitracin

1994 • 78 citations

In vitro activity of LY333328, an investigational glycopeptide antibiotic, against enterococci and staphylococci

1996 • 71 citations

The emergence of Enterococcus faecium resistant to glycopeptides and other standard agents—a preliminary report

1995 • 66 citations

Effective Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Enterococcal Experimental Endocarditis with Combinations of Cell Wall-Active Agents

1996 • 64 citations

Inducible and constitutive expression of vanC-1-encoded resistance to vancomycin in Enterococcus gallinarum

1995 • 57 citations

Glycopeptide-ResistantEnterococcus faeciumOutside Hospitals: A Commentary

1995 • 56 citations

Use of Bacitracin Therapy for Infection Due to Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium

1995 • 55 citations

Inducible and constitutive expression of resistance to glycopeptides and vancomycin dependence in glycopeptide-resistant Enterococcus avium

1995 • 52 citations

Gastrointestinal tract colonization with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in an animal model

1996 • 48 citations

Superinfection with Enterococcus faecalis During Quinupristin/Dalfopristin Therapy

1997 • 44 citations

Comparison Of Different -Lactam-Glycopeptide-Gentamicin Combinations For An Experimental Endocarditis Caused By A Highly -Lactam-Resistant And Highly Glycopeptide-Resistant Isolate Of Enterococcus faecium

1995 • 42 citations

Successful Treatment of Persistent Bacteremia due to Vancomycin-Resistant, Ampicillin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium

1995 • 41 citations

Recommendations for Preventing the Spread of Vancomycin Resistance

1995 • 38 citations

Current Clinical Topics in Infectious Diseases, vol 5.

1986 • 38 citations

Altered peptidoglycan composition in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis

1996 • 30 citations

Antibiotic resistance in Enterococcus species: an update.

1996 • 22 citations

Household Transmission of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium

1995 • 20 citations

Treatment of experimental endocarditis due to multidrug-resistant Enterococcus faecium with clinafloxzcin and penicillin

1996 • 16 citations

A Citywide Survey of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus--New York City, 1993

1996 • 11 citations

Preventing spread of vancomycin resistance

1994 • 5 citations

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1955 • 0 citations

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