The colonization rate and associated factors of vancomycin-resistant enterococci among HIV infected individuals in resource-limited settings of Southwest Ethiopia: a comparative cross-sectional study
Imamu Bulcha, Yared Nigusu, Sisay Teferi, Lemi Ushu, Tamiru Endalu, Gemechis Dereje, Tesfaye Kassa, Kedir Abdella · 2026
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Bulcha and colleagues measured gut carriage of vancomycin-proof enterococci in southwest Ethiopia in 2023, reporting in 2026. Enterococci are gut bacteria, and the vancomycin-proof kind shrug off a last-resort drug. They can turn dangerous in weakened patients. The study enrolled 308 people at Mettu Karl hospital, with and without HIV. Stool samples were cultured, and drug tests used standard disk methods.
Enterococci grew from about 57 percent of the people tested. Roughly nine percent of those isolates were likely resistant strains. Carriage ran higher in HIV-positive patients, about 11 percent against about 7 percent in HIV-negative patients. The gap was not firm, though. Nearly half of all isolates resisted many drug classes at once. A hospital stay in the past six months was the one factor clearly tied to resistant carriage after adjustment. The authors frame such carriage as a quiet reservoir to watch.
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| CREATOR | Imamu Bulcha, Yared Nigusu, Sisay Teferi, Lemi Ushu, Tamiru Endalu, Gemechis Dereje, Tesfaye Kassa, Kedir Abdella |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |