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Cytotoxicity of hydrogen peroxide produced by Enterococcus faecium.
Infection and immunity - 1 Aug 2004
Moy Terence I, Mylonakis Eleftherios, Calderwood Stephen B, Ausubel Frederick M
Abstract excerpt
Although the opportunistic bacterial pathogen Enterococcus faecium is a leading source of nosocomial infections, it appears to lack many of the overt virulence factors produced by other bacterial pathogens, and the underlying mechanism of pathogenesis is not clear. Using E. faecium-mediated killing of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans as an indicator of toxicity, we determined that E. faecium produces...
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