Enterococcal surface protein Esp is not essential for cell adhesion and intestinal colonization of Enterococcus faecium in mice

BACKGROUND: Enterococcus faecium has globally emerged as a cause of hospital-acquired infections with high colonization rates in hospitalized patients. The enterococcal surface protein Esp, identified as a potential virulence factor, is specifically linked to nosocomial clonal lineages that are gene...

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Autores principales: Heikens, Esther, Leendertse, Masja, Wijnands, Lucas M, van Luit-Asbroek, Miranda, Bonten, Marc JM, van der Poll, Tom, Willems, Rob JL
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2639590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19178704
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-9-19

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