Failure to Develop Vancomycin-Resistant <i>Enterococcus</i> With Oral Vancomycin Treatment of <i>Clostridium difficile</i>

Abstract

Even when other risk factors were present, no patient receiving oral vancomycin at our facility subsequently became culture positive for VRE. This suggests that oral vancomycin therapy or other antibiotic use, including anti-anaerobic therapy, may not be a significant independent risk factor for turning culture positive for VRE among patients not previously exposed to the microbe.