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A liaR Deletion Restores Susceptibility to Daptomycin and Antimicrobial Peptides in Multidrug-Resistant Enterococcus faecalis
31 Oct 2014
Abstract excerpt
Daptomycin is a lipopeptide antibiotic that is used clinically against many gram-positive bacterial pathogens and is considered a key frontline bactericidal antibiotic to treat multidrug-resistant enterococci. Emergence of daptomycin resistance during therapy of serious enterococcal infections is a major clinical issue. In this work, we show that deletion of the gene encoding the response regulator, LiaR (a...
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