18 inpatients Infected with VRE where certain antibiotics do not work Nara December 9th 20:41
It was found that 18 inpatients at a hospital in Yamatotakada City, Nara Prefecture were infected with VRE = vancomycin-resistant enterococci, for which certain antibiotics did not work. Five of them died, but all hospitals have no causal relationship with VRE.
According to Yamato Takada Municipal Hospital, it was found on the 11th of last month that a 70-year-old male hospitalized patient was infected with a bacterium that does not work with certain antibiotics, VRE = vancomycin-resistant enterococci.
For this reason, when we examined other hospitalized patients, we found that 18 men and women in their 60s and 90s were infected in 4 wards.
VRE may cause peritonitis or sepsis when infected by people with low resistance, such as elderly people or patients after surgery, but no one has had these symptoms.
In addition, 5 out of 18 infected people died, but all are caused by another disease and have no causal relationship with VRE.
The hospital considers that there is a possibility of nosocomial infection and is taking measures such as disinfection and investigating the cause.
Takahito Okamura, director of Yamato Takada City Hospital, says, “I thought I was trying to take measures against infection, but I regret that it was not enough.