Article
Transfer of pheromone-inducible plasmids between Enterococcus faecalis in the Syrian hamster gastrointestinal tract.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Nov 1992
Huycke M M, Gilmore M S, Jett B D, Booth J L
Abstract excerpt
Pheromone-responsive plasmids are common to Enterococcus faecalis, transfer at high frequency in vitro, and carry cytolysin and other gene products implicated in the pathogenesis of enterococcal infection. A Syrian hamster model of enterococcal intestinal overgrowth was used to test for transfer...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Conjugation, Genetic
- Cricetinae
- Crosses, Genetic
- Digestive System
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Enterococcus faecalis
- Erythromycin
- Feces
- Genotype
- Male
- Mesocricetus
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phenotype
- Pheromones
- Plasmids