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J Med Microbiol 57 (2008), 244-245; DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.47429-0
© 2008 Society for General Microbiology
ISSN 1473-5644

Case Report

Bacteraemia associated with a vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus gallinarum strain harbouring both the vanA and vanC1 genes

Vânia Lúcia Carreira Merquior1, Felipe Piedade Gonçalves Neves1,2, Rachel Leite Ribeiro1, Rafael Silva Duarte2, Elizabeth de Andrade Marques1 and Lúcia Martins Teixeira2

1 Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

2 Instituto de Microbiologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Correspondence
Vânia Lúcia Carreira Merquior
vania.merquior{at}pq.cnpq.br

Received 5 June 2007
Accepted 24 October 2007

A case of a post-surgical patient who developed a fatal bloodstream infection caused by high-level vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus gallinarum is reported. The isolate was found to carry both the vanC1 and vanA genes. This is the first report of an invasive infection associated with a vanA E. gallinarum isolate in Brazil.






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