Over the past three decades, mobile DNA sequences called transposable elements have proliferated throughout the genome of Enterococcus faecium, an important bacterium behind infections in hospitalized ...

Allogeneic hematopoietic-cell transplantation is a mainstay of treatment for hematologic cancers, and the gut microbiota — the collection of archaea, bacteria, fungi, protists, and viruses that reside ...

A recent Lancet Microbe study investigated the accuracy of antibiotic resistance determination from Enterococcus faecium genomes for diagnostic purposes. Study: Antibiotic resistance determination ...

New research presented last week at the annual conference of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM)—known as ASM Microbe ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

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 ...

Scientists have used genome sequencing to reveal the extent to which a drug-resistant gastrointestinal bacterium can spread within a hospital, highlighting the challenge hospitals face in controlling ...

Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Organisms Causing Major Clinical Problems. Then MRSA began developing resistance to glycopeptides, first evolving, through largely undefined mutations, low-level ...