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 ...

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

New research due to be presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) reveals that raw-type dog foods contain high levels of multidrug-resistant ...

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 ...

Each week, health department teams across Virginia take to local beaches to search for a culprit that could dampen a day of fun in the sun. Starting early in the morning, team members go beach by ...

Four swimming beaches at state parks in New York are closed, according to the state Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Two of the closed beaches tested high for E.coli, one ...

The intestinal domination of enterococci promotes the expansion and pathogenicity of S. Tm. After the oral administration of coumarin glucosides, enterococci inhibit the growth and invasion of S. Tm ...

Understanding the enterococci bacteria family - mostly found in non-heat treated foods - formed the prime objective of a recent European funded project. Primary objective? To investigate the ...