Intra- and Interspecies Genomic Transfer of the Enterococcus faecalis Pathogenicity Island - Laverde Gomez, Jenny A.; Hendrickx, Antoni P. A.; Willems, Rob J.; Top, Janetta; Sava, Irina; Huebner, Johannes; Witte, Wolfgang; Werner, Guido (PloS one, 2011)
Keywords: Animal models; Animals; Antibiotic resistance; Antibiotics; Bacteremia; Bacterial Infections - microbiology; Bacterial proteins; Bacterial Proteins - metabolism; Biofilms; Biology; Chromosomes; Conjugation; Conjugation, Genetic; Cross infection; Cytolytic activity; Enterococcus faecalis; Enterococcus faecalis - genetics; Enterococcus faecium; Female; Flow Cytometry; Gene expression; Gene transfer; Gene Transfer Techniques; Genes; Genomic Islands; Genomics; Health aspects; Horizontal transfer; Hospitals; Medicine; Membrane Proteins - metabolism; Mice; Mice, Inbred BALB C; Microbial drug resistance; Models, Genetic; Nosocomial infection; Pathogenicity; Pathogens; Peritonitis; Phenotype; Plasmids; Polyamide-imides; Species Specificity; Streptococcus faecalis; Virulence; Virulence factors; Virulence Factors - genetics