Contribution of Individual Ebp Pilus Subunits of Enterococcus faecalis OG1RF to Pilus Biogenesis, Biofilm Formation and Urinary Tract Infection

The endocarditis and biofilm-associated pilus (Ebp) operon is a component of the core genome of Enterococcus faecalis that has been shown to be important for biofilm formation, adherence to host fibrinogen, collagen and platelets, and in experimental endocarditis and urinary tract infection models....

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Autores principales: Sillanpää, Jouko, Chang, Chungyu, Singh, Kavindra V., Montealegre, Maria Camila, Nallapareddy, Sreedhar R., Harvey, Barrett R., Ton-That, Hung, Murray, Barbara E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3708956/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23874774
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068813

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