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What does enterococcus mean?

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  1. (bacteriology) Any of a group of streptococci bacteria, of the genus Enterococcus, that inhabit the human gastrointestinal tract and have great resistance to antibiotics
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It has been approved for certain gram-positive infections including certain drug-resistant enterococcus, staphylococcus, and pneumococcus strains.
Bacteriophage therapy rescues mice bacteremic from a clinical isolate of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium.
Some 87 percent of the meat the researchers collected contained either normal or antibiotic-resistant enterococcus, suggesting that most of the meat came in contact with fecal material at some point.
Other common organisms are proteus, klebbsiela, staphylococcus and enterococcus fecalis.
The federal researchers tested for the enterococcus bacteria, which is an indication of fecal contamination.
Antimicrobial activity and occurrence of bacteriocin structural genes in Enterococcus spp.

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