Antibiotics have made it possible to treat bacterial infections such as meningitis and
bacteraemia that, prior to their introduction, were untreatable and consequently fatal …

Highlights•Enterococci have become major human MDR nosocomial pathogens.•They are
found ubiquitously in non-human habitats (animals and the environment).•The main threat …

Opportunistic bacterial pathogen species and their strains that colonise the human gut are
generally understood to compete against both each other and the commensal species …

Enterococcus spp. are one of the most frequent producers of bacteriocins (enterocins),
which provides them with an advantage to compete in their natural environment, which is the …

Background and aims Cirrhosis is associated with changes in intestinal microbiota that can
lead to hepatic encephalopathy (HE) and infections, especially with antibiotic-resistant …

Insertion sequences (IS) are simple transposons implicated in the genome evolution of
diverse pathogenic bacterial species. Enterococci have emerged as important human …

Dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) through natural transformation is
facilitated by factors that stabilize extracellular DNA (eDNA) and that induce reactive oxygen …

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) plays a critical role in the evolution and diversification of
many microbial species. The resulting dynamics of gene gain and loss can have important …

Equine Herpesvirus‐1 infection has been assessed according to the criteria of the Animal
Health Law (AHL), in particular criteria of: Article 7 on disease profile and impacts, Article 5 …

The aim of our study was to characterize the epidemiological situation concerning
nosocomial vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis of VanA-phenotype (VR Efs-VanA) …