Enterococci infections, have drawn attention of clinicians due to rapid increase in high level aminoglycoside resistance (HLAR). This predicts failure β-lactam antibiotic and combination, which is the current treatment choice for serious enterococci infections. led us investigate about prevalence HLAR our hospital setting Shimoga, Karnataka. All clinical samples received at Microbiology laborat...

This study characterized the fecal indicator bacteria (FIB), including Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Enteroccocus (ENT), disseminated over time in the Bay of Vidy, which is the most contaminated area of Lake Geneva. Sediments were collected from a site located at ∼500 m from the present waste water treatment plant (WWTP) outlet pipe, in front of the former WWTP outlet pipe, which was located a...

BACKGROUND Enterococcus faecium and faecalis are Gram-positive opportunistic pathogens that have become leading causes of nosocomial infections over the last decades. Especially multidrug resistant enterococci have become a challenging clinical problem worldwide. Therefore, new treatment options are needed and the identification of alternative targets for vaccine development has emerged as a fe...

Enterococci were obtained from 213 of 403 insects cultured during a 14-month period, in numbers from 10(3) to 3 x 10(7)/g of insect. Insects were taken only from nonurban, wild, and cultivated fields and woods. In species of insects carrying them, enterococci were not always present in every individual cultured, and often more than one species of enterococcus occurred within a species. Enteroco...

Four Enterococcus faecium strains isolated from fermented products were evaluated for potential use as probiotic strains. In addition to efaAfm gene, commonly found in E. faecium food isolates, none of the isolates possessed virulence genes and none had positive reactions for the production of tyramine, histamine, putrescine and cadaverine in the screening medium used. All of these four isolate...

Bacteriocin production was determined for 218 Enterococcus isolates (Enterococcus faecalis [93] and E. faecium [125]) obtained from different origins (human clinical samples [87], human fecal samples [78], sewage [28], and chicken samples [25]) and showing different vancomycin susceptibility patterns (vancomycin resistant, all of them vanA positive [56], and vancomycin susceptible [162]). All e...

background enterococcus faecium is an important nosocomial pathogen and has developed resistance to multiple antibiotics, such as vancomycin. nitrofurantoin is active against e. faecium and e. faecalis, including vana- and vanb-positive isolates. objectives to investigate the role of rpob mutation in e. faecium. methods the growth rate and reactive oxygen species (ros) levels were determined. t...

OBJECTIVES The most prevalent type of acquired glycopeptide resistance is encoded by the vanA transposon Tn1546 located mainly on transferable plasmids in Enterococcus faecium. The limited occurrence in other species could be due to the lack of inter-species transferability and/or stability of Tn1546-containing plasmids in other species. We investigated the in vitro transferability of 14 pre-ch...

Enterococcus faecium, E. durans and faecalis species were isolated identified from traditional Urfa cheese samples which produced unpasteurized raw milk. The enterococcal load of the was between 4.4-5.6 log cfu g−1. High-level tetracycline, streptomycin, erythromycin, gentamycin, penicillin resistance determined in isolates. Multiple antibiotic also (20.4%) faecium (16.3%) strains. 36.7% isolat...

Using six Enterococcus faecalis and five Enterococcus faecium strains, the ketolide ABT-773 (ABT), now known as cethromycin, was found to have in vivo efficacy against both erythromycin (ERY)-susceptible (Ery(s)) and -intermediate (Ery(i)) enterococci (ABT 50% protective doses [PD(50)s], 0.5 to 4.1 and 10.3 to 16.2 mg/kg of body weight, respectively). Against four highly Ery-resistant (Ery(r)) ...