Mary D. Nettleman, MD, MS, MACP is the Chair of the Department
of Medicine at Michigan State University. She is a graduate of
Vanderbilt Medical School, and completed her residency in
Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at
Indiana University. Dr. Charles "Pat" Davis, MD, PhD, is a board
certified Emergency Medicine doctor who currently practices as a
consultant and staff member for hospitals. He has a PhD in
Microbiology (UT at Austin), and the MD (Univ. Texas Medical
Branch, Galveston). He is a Clinical Professor (retired) in the
Division of Emergency Medicine, UT Health Science Center at San
Antonio, and has been the Chief of Emergency Medicine at UT
Medical Branch and at UTHSCSA with over 250 publications.
Enterococci are a group of gram-negative, round-shaped bacteria
that commonly live in the gut, although they can cause infection
anywhere in the body. They are resistant to several antibiotics,
but in the past, physicians could rely on the drug vancomycin to
effectively treat entero