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Enterococcal Polysaccharide Antigen (EPA) rhamnan backbone contributes to cell wall architecture and is essential for antimicrobial resistance, innate immune evasion and phage infection

2026-08-31

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Enterococci are opportunistic pathogens classified by the World Health Organization as high-priority microorganisms. They cause a broad spectrum of infections, and their intrinsic and acquired resistance to antimicrobials makes these infections particularly difficult to treat and eradicate. In Enterococcus faecalis , the most frequently isolated enterococcal pathogen in humans, antimicrobial resistance and innate...

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Literature Corpus work: 62b16e46-a419-5608-98ee-5ffd42230dbe
DOI: 10.64898/2026.08.24.746643

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