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Volume 7, Number 2—April 2001
THEME ISSUE
4th Decennial International Conference on Nosocomial and Healthcare-Associated Infections

Introduction

Emergence of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci

Louis B. RiceComments to Author 
Author affiliation: VA Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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Table 1

Pre-treatment with antibiotics and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) colonization after gastric administration of 102 CFU vancomycin and ampicillin-resistant Enterococcus faecium C68 (46)

Approximate log10 CFU VRE/g stool
Day 3
 Day 6
 Day 9
 Day 13
 Day 16
Saline 2 2.5 3 2.5 2.5
Piperacillin-tazobactam 2 2 2 2 2
Ticarcillin-clavulanic acid >9 >9 8.2 6.8 6.8
Ceftriaxone >9 8.8 8.4 7.2 6

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