Everyone has bacteria that live in their intestines and genital tract. In fact, your body has trillions of bacteria at any one point in time. They help with bodily functions like digesting food and ...

Health officials threw some cold water on weekend swim plans Friday, warning that bacteria counts at several popular spots, ...

Antibiotic-resistant enterococci are a serious problem for patients in the hospital, but little is known about how these bacteria are able to escape antibiotics. New discoveries about the ways in ...

A beach popular with UK holidaymakers has closed again after mass bacteria levels were found in the water. The sunny spot ...

The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality team in Biloxi has tested beaches under federal standards for more than ...

Enterococci are Gram-positive, facultative anaerobic cocci that colonise the gastrointestinal tracts of humans and animals yet have emerged as leading causes of multidrug-resistant hospital-acquired ...

Enterococcus faecalis is a species of bacteria that is naturally found in the intestines. While it tends to be harmless in that environment, it has the potential to cause a serious infection if it ...

Daptomycin is a lipopeptide with bactericidal activity that acts on the cell membrane of enterococci and is often used off-label to treat patients infected with vancomycin-resistant enterococci.

DOH officials say the locations do not meet the recreational water quality criteria for Enterococci bacteria.