Enterobacteriaceae are a family of bacteria that includes many gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria.
Detailed description
Some members of the family enterobacteriaceae are typical gut bacteria, which only become harmful if they translocate into other regions of the body. Salmonella, Shigella and gut pathogenic Escherichia are also enterobacteriaceae. They do not belong to the normal gut flora but are always pathogenic.
Antibiotic resistant bacteria lead to infections that are difficult to treat, particularly in hospitals. Multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli bacteria which have developed special enzymes that render
The spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria is causing concern—and the call for new agents is getting louder and louder. But which antibiotics are needed most urgently? Today, for the first time, the
An international team of scientists and clinicians have, for the first time, examined the spread of particularly dreaded multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae throughout Europe and collected
According to National Reference Center for Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections estimates, up to 15,000 patients die of hospital-acquired infections in Germany every year. Here, multidrug-resistant
The mcr-1 gene makes gut bacteria insensitive to the last-resort antibioticcolistin. Especially in hospitals, colistin is used as a last treatment option for infections with dreaded multidrug
