KEGG   DISEASE: Vancomycin-resistant enterococci infection
Entry
H00340                      Disease                                
Name
Vancomycin-resistant enterococci infection
Description
Enterococci are gram-positive, facultative bacteria with low intrinsic virulence that constitute the normal colonizing flora of the human gastrointestinal tract. Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) are among the most common antimicrobial-resistant pathogens globally, causing bacteremia with or without endocarditis, and intra-abdominal, wound, and genitourinary infection in immunocompromised patients. The mortality rate is high.
Category
Bacterial infectious disease
Brite
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
 21 Symptoms, signs or clinical findings, not elsewhere classified
  General symptoms, signs or clinical findings
   Finding of microorganism resistant to antimicrobial drugs
    MG51  Finding of gram positive bacteria resistant to antimicrobial drugs
     H00340  Vancomycin-resistant enterococci infection
Genome-based classification of infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
 Bacterial infections
  Infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria
   H00340  Vancomycin-resistant enterococci infection
Infectious diseases by law in Japan [br08406.html]
 H00340
Pathogen
Enterococcus faecalis [GN:efa]
Enterococcus faecium [GN:efc efau]
Enterococcus gallinarum
Drug
Linezolid [DR:D00947]
Other DBs
ICD-11: MG51.20
Reference
  Authors
Linden PK
  Title
Treatment options for vancomycin-resistant enterococcal infections.
  Journal
Drugs 62:425-41 (2002)
DOI:10.2165/00003495-200262030-00002
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