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High-Level Resistance to Aminoglycosides Among Multidrug Resistant Non-faecalis and Non-faecium Enterococci |
Background: Enterococci are considered as important causative pathogens of a variety of community and hospital-acquired infections. Due to the development of multidrug resistant (MDR) enterococci and the emergence of strains possessing high-level resistance to antimicrobial agents, treatment of their infections has been more complicated. In addition to more prevalent species of the Enterococcus genus, non-faecalis/non-faecium species are also responsible for severe healthcare-associated infections. Therefore, this study was designed to investigate high-level gentamicin resistance among the clinical isolates of non-faecalis and non-faecium enterococci in Shiraz, in the southwest of Iran.
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