Current Knowledge of Enterococcal Endocarditis: A Disease Lurking in Plain Sight to Health Provider

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Enterococcus faecalis is a bacterial pathogen that can cause opportunistic infections. Studies indicate that initial biofilm formation plays a crucial regulatory role in these infections, as well as in colonising and maintaining the gastrointestinal tract as a commensal member of the microbiome of most land animals. It has long been thought that vegetation of endocarditis resulting from bacterial attachment to the...

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• Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
• Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
• Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
• Gut microbiota and health
• Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management
• Neutrophil, Myeloperoxidase and Oxidative Mechanisms
• Probiotics and Fermented Foods
• Streptococcal Infections and Treatments

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Literature Corpus work

8457306d-e6c0-5be2-96f7-47eac806c3f4

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10.20944/preprints202402.0204.v1