Everyone has bacteria that live in their intestines and genital tract. In fact, your body has trillions of bacteria at any one point in time. They help with bodily functions like digesting food and ...

As the old saying goes, what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger – and this could very well be the life motto of enterococci, superbug extraordinaire. A new study by scientists at the Broad ...

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 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 ...

Nobody likes to see an orange flag planted on a Texas beach. That flag means there's a present environmental warning that could affect what you do on said beach ...

Despite the fact that bodies of water in Florida are experiencing an algae bloom, 13 Palm Beach County beaches tested negative for the presence of enterococci bacteria.The Florida Department of Health ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Molecular clock analyses placed the origin of the Enterococcus genus at ∼500 million years ago Sequence analyses were used to investigate the diversification of the Enterococcus genus. The authors ...