Horvitz R A, Von Graevenitz A
Yale J Biol Med. 1977 Jul-Aug;50(4):391-5.
Patients who had enterococci isolated from wounds or tissues were identified from laboratory records. The charts of patients with pure cultures of enterococci were reviewed to determine the degree of clinically significant infection. We found that the frequency of infections in patients with pure cultures of enterococci was not significantly different from the frequency of infections in a control series of patients with negative cultures, but that it was significantly different from the frequency of infections in a series of patients with pure cultures of Staphylococcus aureus. Our conclusion that enterococci are not by themselves significant pathogens in wound or tissue infections is supported by a few experimental studies of other authors.
从实验室记录中识别出伤口或组织中分离出肠球菌的患者。对肠球菌纯培养患者的病历进行审查，以确定临床显著感染的程度。我们发现，肠球菌纯培养患者的感染频率与培养结果为阴性的对照系列患者的感染频率无显著差异，但与金黄色葡萄球菌纯培养系列患者的感染频率有显著差异。其他作者的一些实验研究支持了我们的结论，即肠球菌本身并非伤口或组织感染中的重要病原体。
