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 ...

When scientists sampled soil and animal poop from around the world, they found a whopping 18 new species of Enterococcus, the purple stained bacteria pictured above. Credit: CDC, Dr. Mike Miller ...

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 ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE) is among the leading causes of hospital-acquired infections in the United States. An estimated 20,000 people in the U.S. become infected ...

Poultry farms that have transitioned from conventional to organic practices and ceased using antibiotics have significantly lower levels of drug-resistant enterococci bacteria. The findings suggest ...

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 ...