... cases of infective endocarditis. Staphylococcus aureus was the main involved pathogen (24.5%) and Enterococcus faecalis etiology was described in 11% of the cases. The aim of this study was to evaluate the in vitro activity of 12 antibiotics alone and in association against 27 strains of E. faecalis...

...Walter H. Traub; Birgit Leonhard A simple combined agar-strip test (CAST), involving filter paper strips charged with 20 jxg of ampicillin or 40 μ g of gentamicin, accurately detected high-level gentamicin resistance among 43 of 146 isolates of Enterococcus faecalis and additive activity...

... of Enterococcus faecalis that showed high-level-gentamicin resistance (HLGR). In the presence of 65% (v/v) of fresh defibrinated human blood, teicoplanin (4 μg/ml) alone afforded significant bactericidal activity, but failed to completely sterilize assay tube contents, whereas teicoplanin combined with any...

...Shuichi Nomura; Hideaki Hanaki; Tetsuo Furukawa; Norio Unemi In vitro and in vivo antibacterial activities of TOC-50, a new parenteral cephalosporin, were assessed against Enterococcus faecalis . In vitro, TOC-50 had excellent activity, stronger than that of penicillin G, sulbactam/ampicillin...

... HCA and 95.3% (n = 3,801) were CA isolates. Gram-negative organisms totaled 3,607 (90.4%) vs. 9.6% Gram-positive organisms. In CA-UTI, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Enterococcus faecalis constituted 66, 11.4, and 5.4%, respectively. HCA-UTI episodes were caused by E. coli (37.8%), K...

... investigated vancomycin tolerance in the Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis strains isolated from different clinical specimens. Methods: Vancomycin was obtained from Sigma Chemical Co. We studied 100 enterococci strains. Fifty-six and 44 of Enterococcus strains were idendified as E. feacalis and E...

... mortality rate among patients with a severe degree of immunosuppression. The first reported case of recurrent tricuspid endocarditis sustained by Streptococcus agalactiae and Enterococcus faecalis in an i.v. drug addict during HIV infection is presented. Antimicrobial therapy with i.v. ampicillin...

... 1997, enterococci were isolated from blood cultures of 117 patients at the Institute of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany. Eightynine (76%) isolates were phenotypically identified as Enterococcus faecalis , and 24 (21%) as Enterococcus faecium . All E...

...Satoshi Takahashi; Masato Sano; Masahiro Nishimura; Masanori Matsukawa; Midori Mikami; Takaoki Hirose; Taiji Tsukamoto The in vitro bactericidal effects of therapeutic concentrations of levofloxacin (LVFX) on clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Enterococcus faecalis were assessed...

...Walter H. Traub; Udo Geipel; Birgit Leonhard Forty-two isolates of Enterococcus faecalis and 56 isolates of Enterococcus faecium, including 8 vancomycin-resistant strains, were examined for comparative susceptibility to 27 antimicrobial drugs with the agar dilution method, employing Mueller-Hinton...

...Hiroshige Mikamo; Kyoko Kawazoe; Yasumasa Sato; Koji Izumi; Teruhiko Tamaya Enterococcus faecalis plays an important role as a pathogen in polymicrobial infections. We evaluated the efficacy of cefozopran (CZOP) using polymicrobial pyometra rats. Rats were infected with a mixed intrauterine...