Antibiotic-resistant enterococci are a serious problem for patients in the hospital, but little is known about how these bacteria are able to escape antibiotics. New discoveries about the ways in ...

Epidemiology and Infection, Vol. 129, No. 1 (Aug., 2002), pp. 57-64 (8 pages) As part of an interventional study to determine glycopeptide-resistant enterococci (GRE) acquisition on a three-ward ...

Vol. 24, Supplement 1. Monitoring and Management of Bacterial Resistance to Antimicrobial Agents: A World Health Organization Symposium (Jan., 1997), pp. S80-S84 (5 pages) In recent years, enterococci ...

March 23, 2006 (Atlanta) — Enterococci isolated from community stool samples have been found resistant to daptomycin, linezolid, and quinupristin-dalfopristin (QD), according to researchers from ...

Antibiotic-resistant infection is projected to catch up to cancer as the leading cause of death by 2050, making understanding and limiting the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria a priority ...

A recent Lancet Microbe study investigated the accuracy of antibiotic resistance determination from Enterococcus faecium genomes for diagnostic purposes. Study: Antibiotic resistance determination ...

Theresa Wagner has studied enterococci and antibiotic resistance for several years. Here she is photographed in connection with another research project on enterococci. Creating new vaccines is one of ...

Vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE) are increasingly important pathogens in stem cell transplant (SCT). In all, 61 pediatric SCT patients had surveillance stool cultures for VRE between July 1999 ...

A hidden antibiotic, forged inside a familiar microbe and overlooked for years, has turned out to be roughly 100 times more ...

Drug-resistant superbugs, already a big problem in hospitals, may have learned a new trick, researchers reported Wednesday. They may have evolved resistance to alcohol — the ingredient in hand ...

Poultry farms that transition to organic and stop giving their birds antibiotics have significantly lower levels of drug-resistant bacteria, according to new research out of the University of Maryland ...