Drug resistance in Enterococcus species in a tertiary level hospital in Assam, India.

The article discusses the laboratory based cross-sectional study in a tertiary care hospital in Assam, India, related to drug resistance in Enterococcus. Topics discussed include the identification of genus Enterococcus through Gram stain, catalase test, and hydrolysis of bile-esculin, penicillin and ampicillin resistance has been also reported from north India, and catheterized patients to have urinary tract infection may be of nosocomial nature.