In this interview, SMART researchers describe how Enterococcus faecalis releases lactic acid to suppress immune cells, ...

When infected wounds – often arising from surgery, diabetes or everyday injuries – fail to heal, they can become chronic infections that linger for weeks and become difficult ...

A common bacterium, Enterococcus faecalis, can suppress the body’s early warning system in wounds, causing infections to persist and create an environment that allows other bacteria to take hold A ...

A mouse wound infection model demonstrated that wounds infected with E. faecalis had dampened immunity, allowing E. faecalis to persist and even enabling co-infecting bacteria like E. coli to thrive.

An international team of scientists, headed by a team at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), has discovered a new way that could speed up the healing of chronic wounds ...