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Table 1 Hospital-wide trends in colonizing and invasive vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) species during the study period 2011 through 2012

From: Non-linear significant relationship between use of glycopeptides and isolation of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus species in a university hospital setting

Species

Annual total no. (%) patients with VRE

Annual no. (%) patients only colonized with VRE

Annual no. (%) patients infected with VRE

 

2011

2012

2011

2012

2011

2012

Any Enterococcus sp.

123 (100)

143 (100)

87 (71)

92 (64)

36 (29)

51 (36)

E. faecium

123 (100)

140 (98)

87 (71)

90 (63)

36 (29)

50 (35)

E. faecalis

3 (2.4)

4 (2.8)

3 (2.4)

2 (1.4)

0

2 (1.4)

E. raffinosus

1 (0.8)

0

1 (0.8)

0

0

0

  1. In case of isolation of more than one Enterococcus spp. in one patient, the patient was only counted once for the category any Enterococcus sp.