Microbiome-mediated fructose depletion restricts murine gut colonization by vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus

S Isaac, A Flor-Duro, G Carruana… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO) are a major threat to public health. MDRO infections,
including those caused by vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE), frequently begin by …

Intestinal bile acids induce a morphotype switch in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus that facilitates intestinal colonization

PT McKenney, J Yan, J Vaubourgeix, S Becattini… - Cell host & …, 2019 - cell.com
Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) are highly antibiotic-resistant and readily
transmissible pathogens that cause severe infections in hospitalized patients. We …

Comparative genome analysis reveals key genetic factors associated with probiotic property in Enterococcus faecium strains

VC Ghattargi, MA Gaikwad, BS Meti, YS Nimonkar… - BMC genomics, 2018 - Springer
Background Enterococcus faecium though commensal in the human gut, few strains provide
a beneficial effect to humans as probiotics while few are responsible for the nosocomial …

Resistencia de cepas de Staphylococcus aureus aislados en ambientes nosocomiales

GIV Pazmiño, CFA Tacuri, PPO Bravo, JG Ortiz - 2022 - repositorio.cidecuador.org
Staphylococcus aureus es un microorganismo que posee características particulares de
virulencia y resistencia a los antibióticos. Las infecciones que produce, ocurren mayormente …

Identification of Novel Conjugative Plasmids with Multiple Copies of fosB that Confer High-Level Fosfomycin Resistance to Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci

L Sun, P Zhang, T Qu, Y Chen, X Hua, K Shi… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
To further characterize the fosB-carrying plasmids of 19 vancomycin-resistant enterococci,
the complete sequences of the fosB-and vanA-containing plasmids of Enterococcus faecium …

Genomic and phenotypic characterisation of Enterococcus mundtii AM_AQ_BC8 for its anti-biofilm, antimicrobial and probiotic potential

A Maitreya, A Qureshi - Archives of Microbiology, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Enterococcus mundtii AM_AQ_BC8 isolated from biofouled filtration membrane was
characterised as a potential probiotic bacterium showing strong L-lactic acid-producing …

Vancomycin resistance in Enterococcus faecium from the Dallas, Texas, area is conferred predominantly on pRUM-like plasmids

M Islam, B Sharon, A Abaragu, H Sistu, RL Akins… - Msphere, 2023 - journals.asm.org
Vancomycin-resistant E. faecium (VREfm) is a significant public health concern because of
limited treatment options. Genomic surveillance can be used to monitor VREfm transmission …

Tagging the vanA gene in wastewater microbial communities for cell sorting and taxonomy of vanA carrying cells

S Gallego, T Barkay, NL Fahrenfeld - Science of The Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Failure to understand the microbial ecology driving the proliferation of antibiotic resistance in
the environment prevents us from develo** strategies to limit the spread of antibiotic …

Acidification-dependent suppression of C. difficile by enterococci in vitro

HR Smith, AK Wood, A Johnson, AZ Stern, Z Sikander… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Clostridioides difficile and Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) are commonly
co-isolated from hospitalized patients. We sought to develop in vitro co-culture systems to …