A new approach to use of bacteriolytic enzymes as a tool for species identification: selection of species-specific indicator strains with bacteriolytic activity towards Enterococcus strains.

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We describe the bacteriolytic activity of 377 group D Enterococcus isolates expressed towards 25 Enterococcus strains belonging to different species and Micrococcus luteus ATCC 4698. Of the 26 indicator strains used to reveal bacteriolytic activity, 5 were lysed by all of the strains of some species and were not lysed by all of the strains of other species. The use of these indicator strains allowed us to devise...

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