Abstract
Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) commonly colonize, but less frequently infect, debilitated patients, such as those on chronic renal dialysis. The emergence of VRE amongst our cohort of renal replacement therapy patients posed considerable challenges in our attempts to prevent spread. Although 60 of 451 (13%) patients became colonized, only two patients required systemic antibiotics for confirmed or suspected invasive infection. Mortality and inpatient stay was greater in VRE-positive compared with VRE-negative patients (50% versus 10%) and patients who were screened on three or more occasions were likely to remain positive (e.g. 56% of patients screened on six occasions were positive). The application of recommended guidelines for the control of VRE, however, severely disrupted our renal dialysis programme and therefore had to be abandoned. As patients on renal dialysis are more likely to acquire VRE, remain colonized, require antibiotics and require regular inpatient or outpatient care more frequently than other patients, control measures should be adapted to minimize spread but not disrupt important and essential medical services.
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