2002 Volume 76 Issue 12 Pages 1035-1039
Enterococcus faecium is usually known as a pathogen of nosocomial infections in compromised patients. Recently it is a problem that some of the E. faecium become resistant to many antibiotics. It is not usual that this pathogen causes pneumonia. We report a community-aquired pneumonia by multidrug-resistant E. faecium in an outpatient who had been receiving hemodialysis for the past year. The patient recovered from peumonia with vancomycin, but had nosocomial pneumonia caused by MRSA later but recovered.