This intravenously-injected drug is used to treat patients with bacteremia caused by vancomycin-resistant " Enterococcus faecium ".
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This strain _ known by the acronym VREF, for vancomycin-resistant enterococcus faecium _ first emerged in 1989, then spread rapidly.
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Important clinical infections caused by " Enterococcus " include urinary tract infections, bacteremia, bacterial endocarditis, diverticulitis, and meningitis.
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Specifically, Lactobacillus and Enterococcus are stimulated by all oat ?-glucan while Bifidobacterium bacteria also stimulated by oat ?-glucan oligosaccharides.
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At New York's Montefiore's Medical Center, the rate of patients carrying drug resistant enterococcus is as high as 42 percent.
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With the body's balance disrupted and other species of bacteria killed by the antibiotics, opportunists like enterococcus go in for the kill.
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Synercid is most important in fighting a fearsome germ spread to thousands of hospitalized patients called " vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium ."
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In the first two days of refreshment, atypical genera " Enterococcus " and " Lactococcus " bacteria highlighted the doughs.
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These microbes have a thick polypeptide layer . " Enterococcus " can be found in the gastrointestinal tracts of humans and other mammals.
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"And the bugs are winning, " said Dr . David Dassey, the Los Angeles County epidemiologist who investigated the enterococcus outbreak.
