Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREF) causes an infection common in US hospitals and is resistant to all commercially available antibiotics. Hospital outbreaks are rare in Europe, although ...

The study has been published in the international Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy here: https://bit.ly/3nlYoCF and funded by the Health Research Board (HRB). Enteroccocus faecium (E. faecium) ...

A short time to positivity (TTP), the period from incubation to blood culture positivity, may help predict mortality rates for patients with Enterococcus faecalis and vancomycin-sensitive E faecium ...

After years of dealing with a recurrent, drug-resistant, bacterial blood infection, a patient agreed to try phage therapy. Within 24 hours of receiving phage therapy, the patient’s blood infection had ...

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 14, 2024 – It was a last-ditch effort. For years doctors had tried to keep a patient’s recurrent drug-resistant bacterial blood infection at bay, but it kept coming back and ...

We need a reliable pipeline with new antibacterial agents that are innovative, affordable, accessible to all those who need ...

Over a period of 13 years, hospital-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance declined simultaneously for common pathogens at U.S. Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers, according to a large ...