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 ...

North Shore beachgoers are getting a hard pause from state health officials. The Hawaiʻi State Department of Health has ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Fourth of July holiday can often be a great opportunity to visit the seaside for a sandy getaway. But local governments across the U.S. have issued warnings and closures to stay away from certain ...

Haleʻiwa Beach Park on Oʻahu’s North Shore is under a water-quality advisory after routine testing turned up elevated levels ...

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 ...

The intestinal domination of enterococci promotes the expansion and pathogenicity of S. Tm. After the oral administration of coumarin glucosides, enterococci inhibit the growth and invasion of S. Tm ...

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 ...

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 ...