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 ...
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 ...
Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) are a type of bacteria called enterococci that have developed resistance to many antibiotics, especially vancomycin. They're dangerous because they're more ...
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. DZIF press release with p ...
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 ...
What Benefit Are Contact Precautions? Breaking news: Healthcare workers do not like contact precautions, and high-quality data to support contact precautions for endemic methicillin-resistant ...
Background: Our institution experienced an increase in the frequency of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) clinical isolates. Surveillance cultures upon hospital admission for patients at high ...
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 ...
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 ...
In a recent review published in the Microorganisms Journal, researchers reviewed existing data on the use of probiotics and antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) against multi-drug-resistant (MDR) bacteria, ...
An international team of researchers has found that an antibiotic commonly prescribed for patients with liver disease, called rifaximin, has led to the global emergence of an almost untreatable form ...
Two common types of antibiotic-resistant bacteria linger in nursing homes, putting vulnerable residents at risk of infection despite cleanings — and even during changes of occupancy, according to a ...
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