%0 Journal Article %A Merquior, Vânia Lúcia Carreira %A Gonçalves Neves, Felipe Piedade %A Ribeiro, Rachel Leite %A Duarte, Rafael Silva %A de Andrade Marques, Elizabeth %A Teixeira, Lúcia Martins %T Bacteraemia associated with a vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus gallinarum strain harbouring both the vanA and vanC1 genes %D 2008 %J Journal of Medical Microbiology, %V 57 %N 2 %P 244-245 %@ 1473-5644 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.47429-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A case of a post-surgical patient who developed a fatal bloodstream infection caused by high-level vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus gallinarum is reported. The isolate was found to carry both the vanC1 and vanA genes. This is the first report of an invasive infection associated with a vanA E. gallinarum isolate in Brazil. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.47429-0