Enterococcus faecalis (E. faecalis) is an infection that happens when Enterococci bacteria — which live in the the gut and bowel — become too numerous or spread to other parts of the body. It can ...

Acute graft-versus-host disease occurs when donor immune cells attack the recipient's tissues after an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HCT). Researchers recently identified a ...

A new study led by a research team from Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School describes how bacteria adapted to the modern hospital environment and repeatedly cause antibiotic-resistant ...

A new study finds that two subtypes of pathogenic Escherichia coli (E. coli) produce five to 16 times more protective capsular “slime” when Enterococcus faecalis (EF) is present. The finding could ...

COMT inhibitors, meant to boost Parkinson’s treatment, unintentionally promote gut bacteria that break down levodopa. This ...

In a new study, researchers have uncovered how cytolysins from Enterococcus faecalis destroys bacterial and mammalian cells. Although Enterococcus faecalis is usually an innocuous member of the ...

Allogeneic hematopoietic-cell transplantation is a mainstay of treatment for hematologic cancers, and the gut microbiota — the collection of archaea, bacteria, fungi, protists, and viruses that reside ...

When infected wounds – often arising from surgery, diabetes or everyday injuries – fail to heal, they can become chronic infections that linger for weeks and become difficult ...

An international team of scientists, headed by a team at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), has discovered a new way that could speed up the healing of chronic wounds ...