"Enterococcus faecium" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A species of gram-positive, coccoid bacteria whose organisms are normal flora of the intestinal tract. Unlike ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS, this species may produce an alpha-hemolytic reaction on blood agar and is unable to utilize pyruvic acid as an energy source.
Descriptor ID |
D016984
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MeSH Number(s) |
B03.353.750.250.250.300 B03.510.550.250.250.300
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2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Enterococcus faecium" by people in Profiles.
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Sepsis 2019: What Surgeons Need to Know. Surg Infect (Larchmt). 2020 Apr; 21(3):195-204.
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Synergistic effects between conventional antibiotics and 2-aminoimidazole-derived antibiofilm agents. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2010 May; 54(5):2112-8.
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Multidrug-resistant Enterococcus faecium endocarditis treated with combination tigecycline and high-dose daptomycin. Ann Pharmacother. 2009 Dec; 43(12):2108-12.