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 ...

Brooke N. Shadel , PhD, MPH, Laura A. Puzniak , PhD, MPH, Kathleen N. Gillespie , PhD, Steven J. Lawrence , MD, Marin Kollef , MD and Linda M. Mundy , MD Objective ...

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 ...

Antibiotic exposure and dirty hands were factors linked to nursing home contamination with the multidrug-resistant bacteria vancomycin-resistant Enterococci, or VRE, a new study finds. The report was ...

In recent years, the emergence of widespread antibiotic resistance has been getting increasing publicity, while there is also a worldwide attempt to provide financial support for the research and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Exposure to the antibiotics did not increase the risk for vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus colonization. Few ...

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Clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus displaying intermediate resistance to vancomycin (VISA) have been identified. The objective of our study was to identify VISA colonization among patients ...

Too much antibiotic can decimate the normal intestinal microbiota, which may never recover its former diversity. That, in turn, renders the GI tract vulnerable to being colonized by pathogens. Now ...

Chemists from the University of Warwick and Monash University have discovered a promising new antibiotic that shows activity against drug-resistant bacterial pathogens, including MRSA and VRE ...

Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia’s oldest teaching hospital, was forced to close one of its intensive care units last October in the wake of Australia’s worst outbreak of the ...

A wide number of "smart" bacteria in the environment have "learned" how to resist the arsenal of antibiotics. Decades of overuse and misuse of antibiotics have caused this crisis: overzealous ...