Vancomycin-resistant enterococci utilise antibiotic-enriched nutrients for intestinal colonisation

Abstract Antibiotic treatment significantly disrupts the gut microbiome and promotes vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) intestinal colonisation. These disruptions cause the intestine to act as a reservoir for VRE that seed difficult-to-treat infections. Here we show that antibiotics that promote...

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Main Authors: Olivia G. King, Alexander Y. G. Yip, Victoria Horrocks, Jesús Miguéns Blanco, Julian R. Marchesi, Benjamin H. Mullish, Thomas B. Clarke, Julie A. K. McDonald
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61731-z
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