what is vre its about the heart?
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I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for but is it:
Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci
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VRE stands for Vancomycin-resistant Enterococci. Enterococci are part of the normal bacteria that present in both sexes, inside and out. Occasionally they can cause an infection. Vancomycin is an antibiotic that is very specific against Enterococci. When bacteria are exposed to less-than effective doses of antibiotics they become resistant to it, hence the term, VRE. When enterococci enter the blood stream, they can infect heart valves, causing endocarditis. This is a serious infection that needs to be treated ASAP. When you have VRE they are much harder to treat with antibiotics, as the best choice, vancomycin is not effective.
VRE is Vancomycin-resistent enterococci, a bacterial infection that has mutated such that it is very difficult to treat with most antibiotics, even Vancomycin. Vancomycin is usually reserved for people who have allergies to several other more common antibiotics, or people who have an infection that Vancomycin works better for. If a person has a bacterial infection that even Vancomycin can't cure, then their options for treatment are very limited, to just a couple of very expensive and limited antibiotics. Health care providers are becoming increasingly concerned about the spread of VRE cases in this country. The worry is that, if this trend continues, most of the antibiotics we use routinely today, will no longer be effective. Then what? VRE is not about the heart, but about bacteria that are outsmarting many of our current antibiotics, by mutating and no longer being affected by them. Scarey huh?
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