A popular tourist beach in Lanzarote has been temporarily closed to swimmers after tests detected high levels of faecal contamination in its waters. According to Public Health officials, elevated ...

For many years, scientists believed that stopping bacteria from communicating with each other could help treat infections.

Disrupting quorum sensing in Enterococcus faecalis can backfire, causing larger biofilms, higher antibiotic tolerance, and prolonged bloodstream infections, potentially worsening infectious ...

A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have challenged the widely held assumption in infectious disease research that blocking ...

Antypas, H., Schmidtchen, V., Staiger, W.I. et al. Loss of Fsr quorum sensing promotes biofilm formation and worsens outcomes in enterococcal infective endocarditis. Nat Commun 17, 1668 (2026).

Bacteria in food can make you seriously ill, which is why it is so important for the facilities that produce your food to ensure proper hygiene in their production lines. A new doctoral thesis from ...

An international team of scientists, of NTU Singapore, has discovered a new way that could speed up the healing of chronic wounds infected by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Worldwide, chronic wounds ...

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 ...

Five Bay County beaches are under advisory due to high levels of enterococcus bacteria. Swimming is not advised at the affected locations until bacteria levels return to acceptable standards.

A combination of a positive leukocyte esterase result and a negative nitrite result on urinalysis was associated with a sevenfold higher likelihood of Enterococcus-associated urinary tract infection ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The array of health care-associated infections, ranging from catheter-associated UTIs to Clostridioides ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new drug for treating urinary tract infections (UTIs), the first such drug approved in decades and the first in a new class of medications.