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vancomycin-resistant

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  • Clinicians also worry about vancomycin-resistant enterococci VRE, encouraged by the use of the antibiotic virginiamycin in livestock, Clostridium difficile, a serious intestinal bug developing resistance, and resistant Acinetobacter baumannii which has so afflicted US troops in Iraq it has been dubbed "Iraqibacter."

    Martha Rosenberg: Are You Eating Antibiotics Without Knowing It? Probably! Martha Rosenberg 2012

  • On the other two they found VRE — vancomycin-resistant enterococcus faecium, a less dangerous form of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

    Study finds new bedbug worry 2011

  • Two bugs had VRE, or vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus Faecium, a less dangerous form of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

    Study finds new bedbug worry 2011

  • Two bugs had VRE, or vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus Faecium, a less dangerous form of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

    Study finds new bedbug worry 2011

  • Clinicians also worry about vancomycin-resistant enterococci VRE, encouraged by the use of the antibiotic virginiamycin in livestock, Clostridium difficile, a serious intestinal bug developing resistance, and resistant Acinetobacter baumannii which has so afflicted US troops in Iraq it has been dubbed "Iraqibacter."

    Martha Rosenberg: Are You Eating Antibiotics Without Knowing It? Probably! Martha Rosenberg 2012

  • They said I am ten times more likely to get it again, and if I get it, and it becomes vancomycin-resistant, then there might not be anything that would stop the infection.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • VRE, see vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • VRSA, see vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • Take, for example, a new drug, or a conservation program for an existing drug, that treats or reduces vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus and leads to fewer intensive care unit admissions for patients with this infection.

    A radical plan to save antibiotics 2010

  • VRE had become vancomycin-resistant in the same years that MRSA had begun to intensify, in hospitals and also in the serious community infections that Robert Daum and others had uncovered.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

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