With these improvements in hand, company founder Richard Carlton plans phase 1 tests early next year for vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium infections. Although antibodies would rapidly ...

Methicillin-resistant staphylococci, penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis and E. faecium are susceptible to linezolid. This agent is ...

inhibiting peptidyl transfer Quinupristin binds also to the 50S ribosomal subunit and prevents elongation of the polypeptide Gram-positive cocci and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium ...

Good infection prevention in hospitals helps stop its spread. Vancomycin-intermediate (VISA) and vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) are forms of the bug that have become resistant to ...

Vancomycin-resistant S. aureus (VRSA) strains grow more slowly and will often lose their resistance mutations if vancomycin is not present. The reason behind vancomycin's durability and the ...

My work is focused on the study of the bacterial cell wall using essentially two Gram-positive pathogens (Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecalis) as models. I am interested in three major areas ...