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 ...

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 ...

Antibiotic exposure and dirty hands were factors linked to nursing home contamination with the multidrug-resistant bacteria vancomycin-resistant Enterococci, or VRE, a new study finds. The report was ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have developed small molecules to combat deadly, drug-resistant enterococcus. Vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE) is among the leading causes of hospital-acquired infections in the ...

Chemists from the University of Warwick and Monash University have discovered a promising new antibiotic that shows activity against drug-resistant bacterial pathogens, including MRSA and VRE ...

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Theresa Wagner has studied enterococci and antibiotic resistance for several years. Here she is photographed in connection with another research project on enterococci. Creating new vaccines is one of ...

C. difficile infection recurrence rates were numerically lower with vancomycin than with placebo, though the difference was not significant. However, the results could be clinically meaningful, an ...