A survey of fecal samples found enterococcal excretion in 82% of 388 bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus), 92% of 131 woodmice (Apodemus sylvaticus), and 75% of 165 badgers (Meles meles).

This study sought to assess the impact of restricting use of vancomycin and third-generation cephalosporins on vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) prevalence. All clinical enterococcal isolates ...

Buescher J, Chen CM, Edberg SC, Sewell D, Van Horn K. Multicenter evaluation of a new method for vancomycin resistant enterococci detection directly from VRE surveillance specimens [abstract C-4]. In: ...

Dr. Rice is chief of the medical service at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Administration Medical Center, vice chairman of the department of medicine at University Hospitals of Cleveland, and ...

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 ...

Known as pre-methylenomycin C lactone, this antibiotic is derived from a model species that’s been studied for nearly 80 ...

To the Editor: The report by Ostrowsky et al. (May 10 issue) 1 provides evidence that active infection-control interventions can reduce or eliminate the transmission of vancomycin-resistant ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — With antimicrobial resistance on the rise, many infections once easily treated are becoming fatal. Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) is to blame for more than 5% of all ...

TUESDAY, May 30, 2017 -- Health experts have long warned about the looming health threat posed by "superbug" bacteria that can mutate to resist antibiotics. But now scientists say they've modified an ...

Learn how chemists were studying a known antibiotic when they discovered a molecule 100 times more potent at defeating ...

Scientists have found a new antibiotic that could be over 100 times more effective in fighting ‘superbugs’ than existing ...