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Endocarditis and biofilm-associated pili of Enterococcus faecalis.
The Journal of clinical investigation - 1 Oct 2006
Nallapareddy Sreedhar R, Singh Kavindra V, Sillanpää Jouko, Garsin Danielle A, Höök Magnus, Erlandsen Stanley L, Murray Barbara E
Abstract excerpt
Increasing multidrug resistance in Enterococcus faecalis, a nosocomial opportunist and common cause of bacterial endocarditis, emphasizes the need for alternative therapeutic approaches such as immunotherapy or immunoprophylaxis. In an earlier study, we demonstrated the presence of antibodies in E. faecalis endocarditis patient sera to recombinant forms of 9 E. faecalis cell wall-anchored proteins; of these, we...
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