A functional collagen adhesin gene, acm, in clinical isolates of Enterococcus faecium correlates with the recent success of this emerging nosocomial pathogen

Enterococcus faecium recently evolved from a generally avirulent commensal into a multidrug-resistant health care-associated pathogen causing difficult-to-treat infections, but little is known about the factors responsible for this change. We previously showed that some E. faecium strains express a...

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Published in:	Infection and immunity Vol. 76; no. 9; p. 4110
Main Authors:	Nallapareddy, Sreedhar R, Singh, Kavindra V, Okhuysen, Pablo C, Murray, Barbara E
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 01.09.2008
Subjects:	Adhesins, Bacterial - genetics Adhesins, Bacterial - metabolism Animals Antibodies, Bacterial - blood Bacterial Adhesion Bacterial Typing Techniques Cattle Chickens Cluster Analysis Collagen - metabolism Cross Infection - microbiology DNA Fingerprinting DNA Transposable Elements DNA, Bacterial - genetics Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field Endocarditis, Bacterial - immunology Enterococcus faecium - classification Enterococcus faecium - genetics Enterococcus faecium - isolation & purification Enterococcus faecium - pathogenicity Feces - microbiology Food Microbiology Genes, Bacterial Genotype Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections - microbiology Humans Pseudogenes Sequence Analysis, DNA Swine Turkeys
ISSN:	1098-5522, 1098-5522
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