The Increasing Issue of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci and the Bacteriocin Solution.
Probiotics Antimicrob Proteins
; 12(3): 1203-1217, 2020 09.
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ABSTRACT
Enterococci are commensals of human and other animals' gastrointestinal tracts. Only making up a small part of the microbiota, they have not played a significant role in research, until the 1980s. Although the exact year is variable according to different geographical areas, this was the decade when vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) were discovered and since then their role as causative agents of human infections has increased. Enterococcus faecium is on the WHO's list of "bacteria for which new antibiotics are urgently needed," and with no new antibiotics in development, the situation is desperate. In this review, different aspects of VRE are outlined, including the mortality caused by VRE, antibiotic resistance profiles, animal-modeling efforts, and virulence. In addition, the limitations of current antibiotic treatments for VRE and prospective new treatments, such as bacteriocins, are reviewed.
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Bacteriocinas
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Infecciones por Bacterias Grampositivas
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Enterococcus faecium
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Enterococcus faecalis
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Enterococos Resistentes a la Vancomicina
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Prognostic_studies
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Probiotics Antimicrob Proteins
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2020
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Article