Shellfish harvesters received some good news recently.

Antibiotic-resistant enterococci are a serious problem for patients in the hospital, but little is known about how these bacteria are able to escape antibiotics. New discoveries about the ways in ...

New yearly assessment evaluates enterococci bacteria levels at area beaches and waterways.

New research due to be presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) reveals that raw-type dog foods contain high levels of multidrug-resistant ...

Vol. 24, Supplement 1. Monitoring and Management of Bacterial Resistance to Antimicrobial Agents: A World Health Organization Symposium (Jan., 1997), pp. S80-S84 (5 pages) In recent years, enterococci ...

Four swimming beaches at state parks in New York are closed, according to the state Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Two of the closed beaches tested high for E.coli, one ...

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 ...

Creating new vaccines is one of several possible strategies in the fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria, in addition to using less antibiotics and using them smarter. One of the bacteria that ...

Understanding the enterococci bacteria family - mostly found in non-heat treated foods - formed the prime objective of a recent European funded project. Primary objective? To investigate the ...

In a study published Thursday in the journal Cell, a team of researchers has shed light on the evolutionary history of enterococci, which are fast developing resistance to even the so-called ...