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In vivo testing of an Enterococcus faecalis efaA mutant and use of efaA homologs for species identification.
FEMS immunology and medical microbiology - 1 Aug 1998
Singh K V, Coque T M, Weinstock G M, Murray B E
Abstract excerpt
Disruption of the previously described efaA (from Enterococcus faecalis antigen A) gene was generated in E. faecalis strain OG1RF and loss of an 37-kDa immunoreactive band from the mutant was demonstrated in Western blots. In a mouse peritonitis model, mice infected with the efaAfs (fs=from Enterococcus faecalis) mutant showed more prolonged survival than mice infected with the parent strain OG1RF. These results...
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