Rocky Mountain Taste and Smell Center, University of Colorado School of Medicine, CU Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado 80045 tom.finger@cuanschutz.edu.
Regenerative Bioscience Center, Department of Animal and Dairy Science, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA. Electronic address: lhx@uga.edu.
Regenerative Bioscience Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA; Department of Animal and Dairy Science, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA; Laboratory of Functional Anatomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Dept. Cell & Developmental Biology, Univ. Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, MS 8108, Room L18-11118, RC-1, 12801 E. 17th Ave., Aurora CO 80045.
Section of Oral Neuroscience, Faculty of Dental Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. shigemura@dent.kyushu-u.ac.jp.
Division of Sensory Physiology, Research and Development Center for Five-Sense Devices Taste and Odor Sensing, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. shigemura@dent.kyushu-u.ac.jp.
Regenerative Bioscience Center, Department of Animal and Dairy Science, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.
It was recently proposed that Enterococcus faecium colonizing the human gut (previous clade B) actually corresponds to Enterococcus lactis. Our goals were to develop a PCR assay to rapidly differentia...
Spread of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) is a global concern as a significant cause of healthcare-associated infections. A series of VRE faecium (VREf) outbreaks caused by clonal propagation ...
The number of patients with VREf was obtained from thirty seven hospitals participating in the local network of Aomori prefecture. Thirteen hospitals performed active screening tests for VRE. Whole ge...
The total number of cases with VREf amounted to 500 in fourteen hospitals in Aomori from Jan 2018 to April 2021. It took more than three years for the frequency of detection of VRE to return to pre-ou...
This was the first multi-jurisdictional outbreak of VREf sequence type 1421 in Japan. In addition to strict infection control measures, continuous monitoring of VRE detection in local medical regions ...
Enterococcus faecium SF68 (SF68) is a well-known probiotic with a long history of safe use. Recent changes in the taxonomy of enterococci have shown that a novel species, Enterococcus lactis, is close...
Enterococcus faecium is one of the important pathogens causing nosocomial infection, which can be resistant to fosfomycin by obtaining the plasmid-encoded fosfomycin resistance genes, and the mutation...
In this study, we found a fosfomycin-resistant clinical isolate of E. faecium Efm_1415 with fosfomycin MIC of 512 mg/L, carrying Asp50Glu mutant of MurA protein, which was never reported before. To st...
The results revealed that the Asp50Glu MurA can mediate a 4-fold increase in the fosfomycin MIC of the host bacteria. Compared with the wild-type MurA, the affinity of the Asp50Glu MurA to the substra...
The research on the mutant MurA had gained a new understanding of the fosfomycin resistance mechanisms and helped to find new antibiotics with MurA enzyme as the target of action....
Denmark has experienced an increase in the proportion of invasive vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) since 2002 (e.g. <4% in 2015, 7.1% in 2017 and 12% in 2018). At Rigshospitalet, we emp...
Enterococcus faecium has been classified as a "high priority" pathogen by the World Health Organization. Enterococcus faecium has rapidly evolved as a global nosocomial pathogen with adaptation to the...
Linezolid-resistant Enterococcus faecium (LRE) is a global priority pathogen. Thirteen LRE were reported from clinical specimens between November 2021 and April 2023 at two laboratories in Karachi, Pa...
Twelve isolates belonged to clonal complex 17 (CC17); ST80 (n = 10), ST612 (n = 1) and ST1380 (n = 1). Six isolates showed the presence of optrA gene and G2576T mutations in the 23S rRNA gene, while s...
Our findings show the circulation of CC17 sequence types with a known outbreak potential and we identified molecular mechanisms of resistance that were not previously reported from Pakistan....
This study aims to compare the antimicrobial activity of omadacycline with tigecycline against clinical isolates of Enterococcus faecium and investigate their resistance mechanisms. Non-duplicate clin...
