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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (1999) 44, 415-416
© 1999 The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

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In-vitro activities of 11 antibiotics against vancomycin-resistant enterococci isolated in Japan

J Antimicrob Chemother 1999; 44: 415–416

Shuichi Miyazaki*, Yoshikazu Ishii, Akira Ohno, Nobuhiko Furuya, Tetsuya Matsumoto, Kazuhiro Tateda and Keizo Yamaguchi

Department of Microbiology, Toho University School of Medicine, 5-21-16 Omori-nishi, Ota-ku, Tokyo 143, Japan

Sir,

Since the initial reports of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) in the late 1980s, increasing numbers of such isolates have been identified in centres in both Europe and the USA.1,2 In 1998, Fujita et al.3 were the first authors in Japan to describe the isolation of a vancomycin-resistant strain of Enterococcus faecium from a patient with a urinary tract infection. To date, 10 strains of VRE have been isolated from patients in Japan. This finding confirms that the problem . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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