The effect of some antibiotics onEnterococcus faeciumSF 68 inoculated in germ-free miceGerm-free miceE. faeciumSF 68antibiotic resistanceA strain ofEnterococcus faeciumSF 68 (sensitive to penicillin, tetracycline, virginiamicin and tylosin, but resistant to streptomycin) was administered to five groups...
especially those treated with prolonged courses of antibiotics. Common enterococcalinfectionsInfectionsInvasion of the host organism by microorganisms or their toxins or by parasites that can cause pathological conditions or diseases.Chronic Granulomatous Diseaseincludeurinary tractUrinary tractThe urinary tract ...
faecium from the gut of honeybees, screening the bacterium for bacteriocin-like inhibitory substance (BLIS), evaluating its impact on the expression of the mexA gene in multidrug-resistant (MDR) P. aeruginosa, and determining the role of bacteriocin in treating infected wounds in mice through ...
The opportunistic pathogen Enterococcus faecium colonizes humans and a wide range of animals, endures numerous stresses, resists antibiotic treatment and stubbornly persists in clinical environments. The widespread application of antibiotics in hospitals and agriculture has contributed to the emergence of vanco...
that have been spreading, mainly in hospitals, causing infections and colonization of patients exposed to a variety of antibiotics. In the case ofE. faecalishigher level penicillin resistance is usually rarer than inE. faecium. It is due to a higher expression of low affinity PBP4. The fact ...
Virulence factors of Enterococcus faeca- lis and Enterococcus faecium blood culture isolates. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2000; 19: 39–42. PMID: 10706178 31. Chai WL, Hamimah H, Cheng SC, Sallam AA, Abdullah M. Susceptibility of Enterococcus faecalis bio- film to antib...
antibiotics, and although vancomycin was once the treatment of choice forE. faecium, vancomycin-resistantE. faeciumis now common in many countries4. Consequently, the World Health Organisation (WHO) listed vancomycin-resistantEnterococcus faecium(VREfm) as a “high priority” in its recent list of ...
faecium strains originated from dairy products, water, and blood. Milk is a lactose-rich environment. Some of the identified dairy-specific genes seem to help the dairy enterococci utilize the lactose present in the milk environment. For example, the dairy-specific gene dld encodes D-lactate ...
such as TNF-α and interleukin 6 (IL-6), and activate lymphocytes to resist the invasion of harmful bacteria. Furthermore,E. faeciumwas found to express apeptidoglycanhydrolase-secreted antigen A (SagA). The action ofhydrolaseSagA can release peptidoglycan fragments in thebacterial cell wall. Aft...
faecium, most OE are isolated from the same sites with other pathogens, indicating the occurrence of polymicrobial infections. Nevertheless, the role of enterococci in polymicrobial infections remains largely unknown. Except that enterococci are commensal bacteria in the gut, they are one of the main...