A Putative Sugar-Binding Transcriptional Regulator in a Novel Gene Locus in Enterococcus faecalis Contributes to Production of Biofilm and Prolonged Bacteremia in Mice

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 189, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 420-430

  Hufnagel, Markus ^a,c   Koch, Stefanie ^a   Creti, Roberta ^b   Baldassarri, Lucilla ^b   Huebner, Johannes ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOFILM; BLOOD; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DELETION MUTANT; DNA FLANKING REGION; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSPOSON; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; BIOFILMS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENES, REGULATOR; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 1142309464     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/381150     Document Type: Article

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