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 ...

A researcher team is collaborating with a Belgian industry partner to develop an antibody-based rapid VRE test capable of reliably detecting the expression of VanA and VanB. Enterococcus faecium is a ...

Vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE) is a well-known infectious complication among immunocompromised patients. We performed a retrospective analysis to identify risk factors for the development 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

HOUSTON -- (Aug. 12, 2019) -- To combat the rise of drug-resistant bacteria, researchers are examining how one superbug adapts to fight an antibiotic of last resort, hoping to find clues that can ...

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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 ...