Enterobacteriaceae are a family of bacteria that includes many gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria.
Detailed description
Some members of the family enterobacteriaceae are typical gut bacteria, which only become harmful if they translocate into other regions of the body. Salmonella, Shigella and gut pathogenic Escherichia are also enterobacteriaceae. They do not belong to the normal gut flora but are always pathogenic.
According to National Reference Center for Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections estimates, up to 15,000 patients die of hospital-acquired infections in Germany every year. Here, multidrug-resistant
The mcr-1 gene makes gut bacteria insensitive to the last-resort antibioticcolistin. Especially in hospitals, colistin is used as a last treatment option for infections with dreaded multidrug
Researchers from the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) have confirmed the spread of a “multidrug-resistant plasmid” in a hospital. This plasmid is a mobile genetic element which can transfer
