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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We studied the prevalence of recurrent vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) bacteremia, predisposing factors, and strain relatedness during a 3 year period at our institution. Of 36 inpatients who ...

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 ...

BOSTON—Clinicians may want to rethink the antibiotics they prescribe for vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) urinary tract infections (UTIs). A new retrospective study presented at the 50 th ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...