Study: Neonatal VRE Outbreak Due to Improper Antimicrobial Use

Successive outbreaks of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in a Greek neonatial intensive care unit may have been caused by poor administration of antibiotics, according to a study in The American Journal of Infection Control.

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Ellie Rizzo

Clinicians at the Aristotle University School of Medicine in Greece began screening neonates upon an 2008 outbreak of VRE in the school of medicine’s neonatal intensive care unit. Between June and December 2008, they found 39.9 percent of infants were colonized with VRE.

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