Heterogeneous Vancomycin‐Intermediate Susceptibility Phenotype in Bloodstream Methicillin‐Resistant<i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>Isolates from an International Cohort of Patients with Infective Endocarditis: Prevalence, Genotype, and Clinical Significance

Abstract

In these analyses, the hVISA phenotype occurred in more than one-quarter of MRSA IE isolates, was associated with certain IE complications, and varied in frequency by geographic region.