In vivo testing of an Enterococcus faecalis efaA mutant and use of efaA homologs for species identification.

doi:10.1111/j.1574-695X.1998.tb01180.x

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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

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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 Enter...

Topics

Amino Acid Sequence
Antigens, Bacterial
Bacterial Proteins
Base Sequence
DNA Gyrase
DNA Probes
DNA Topoisomerases, Type II
DNA, Bacterial
Enterococcus faecalis
Immunoblotting
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation

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