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 ...

A health advisory for Palm Beach’s Midtown Beach was lifted March 5 after follow-up testing showed bacteria levels had ...

State health officials have issued a health advisory for the water off Midtown Beach in Palm Beach, after a March 2 test ...

As the old saying goes, what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger – and this could very well be the life motto of enterococci, superbug extraordinaire. A new study by scientists at the Broad ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nobody likes to see an orange flag planted on a Texas beach. That flag means there's a present environmental warning that could affect what you do on said beach ...

Two places, one in Daytona Beach Shores and another in Wilbur-by-the-Sea, tested above the state guidelines for enterococci ...

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.