The rise of the Enterococcus: beyond vancomycin resistance

Immune Evasion of Enterococcus faecalis by an Extracellular Gelatinase That Cleaves C3 and iC3b

(2014) S. Y. Park et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Genomic and SNP Analyses Demonstrate a Distant Separation of the Hospital and Community-Associated Clades of Enterococcus faecium

(2012) Jessica Galloway-Peña et al.   PLoS One

Genetic Basis for Daptomycin Resistance in Enterococci

(2011) Kelli L. Palmer et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Analysis of PBP5 of Early U.S. Isolates of Enterococcus faecium: Sequence Variation Alone Does Not Explain Increasing Ampicillin Resistance over Time

(2011) Jessica R. Galloway-Peña et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

IS element IS16 as a molecular screening tool to identify hospital-associated strains of Enterococcus faecium

(2011) Guido Werner et al.   BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

The hylEfm gene in pHylEfm of Enterococcus faecium is not required in pathogenesis of murine peritonitis

(2011) Diana Panesso et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Genome-based insights into the evolution of enterococci

(2011) W. van Schaik et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control in Acute-Care Settings

(2011) E. R. M. Sydnor et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS

Conservation of Ebp-Type Pilus Genes among Enterococci and Demonstration of Their Role in Adherence of Enterococcus faecalis to Human Platelets

(2011) Sreedhar R. Nallapareddy et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Relative Contributions of Ebp Pili and the Collagen Adhesin Ace to Host Extracellular Matrix Protein Adherence and Experimental Urinary Tract Infection by Enterococcus faecalis OG1RF

(2011) Sreedhar R. Nallapareddy et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

The Fsr Quorum-Sensing System of Enterococcus faecalisModulates Surface Display of the Collagen-Binding MSCRAMM Ace through Regulation of gelE

(2011) K. L. Pinkston et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Importance of Two Enterococcus faecium Loci Encoding Gls-like Proteins for In Vitro Bile Salts Stress Response and Virulence

(2011) Tina Choudhury et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Contribution of the enterococcal surface protein Esp to pathogenesis of Enterococcus faecium endocarditis

(2011) Esther Heikens et al.   MICROBES AND INFECTION

Molecular Characterization of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci in a Chinese Hospital Between 2003 and 2009

(2011) Yingmei Liu et al.   Microbial Drug Resistance

Antibiotic resistance is ancient

(2011) Vanessa M. D’Costa et al.   NATURE

Genetic Basis for In Vivo Daptomycin Resistance in Enterococci

(2011) Cesar A. Arias et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

A simple and efficient method to search for selected primary transcripts: non-coding and antisense RNAs in the human pathogen Enterococcus faecalis

(2011) Aymeric Fouquier d’Hérouel et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Genome-Wide Identification of Small RNAs in the Opportunistic Pathogen Enterococcus faecalis V583

(2011) Kouki Shioya et al.   PLoS One

Global Spread of the hylEfm Colonization-Virulence Gene in Megaplasmids of the Enterococcus faecium CC17 Polyclonal Subcluster

(2010) A. R. Freitas et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Pyrosequencing-based comparative genome analysis of the nosocomial pathogen Enterococcus faecium and identification of a large transferable pathogenicity island

(2010) Willem van Schaik et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Bicarbonate enhances expression of the endocarditis and biofilm associated pilus locus, ebpR-ebpABC, in Enterococcus faecalis

(2010) Agathe Bourgogne et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Mobile genetic elements and their contribution to the emergence of antimicrobial resistant Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium

(2010) K. Hegstad et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Horizontal gene transfer and the genomics of enterococcal antibiotic resistance

(2010) Kelli L Palmer et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Gelatinase Contributes to the Pathogenesis of Endocarditis Caused by Enterococcus faecalis

(2010) L. R. Thurlow et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Role of Methionine Sulfoxide Reductases A and B of Enterococcus faecalis in Oxidative Stress and Virulence

(2010) C. Zhao et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Enterococcal Biofilm Formation and Virulence in an Optimized Murine Model of Foreign Body-Associated Urinary Tract Infections

(2010) P. S. Guiton et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

A multiresistance megaplasmid pLG1 bearing a hylEfm genomic island in hospital Enterococcus faecium isolates

(2010) Jenny A. Laverde Gomez et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

High-Quality Draft Genome Sequences of 28 Enterococcus sp. Isolates

(2010) K. L. Palmer et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Enterococcus faecalis rnjB Is Required for Pilin Gene Expression and Biofilm Formation

(2010) P. Gao et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Which species are in your feces?

(2010) Colby Zaph   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus domination of intestinal microbiota is enabled by antibiotic treatment in mice and precedes bloodstream invasion in humans

(2010) Carles Ubeda et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Molecular Epidemiology of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium: a Prospective, Multicenter Study in South American Hospitals

(2010) D. Panesso et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial Flagellin Stimulates Toll‐Like Receptor 5–Dependent Defense against Vancomycin‐ResistantEnterococcusInfection

(2010) Melissa A. Kinnebrew et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

The Extracytoplasmic Function Sigma Factor SigV Plays a Key Role in the Original Model of Lysozyme Resistance and Virulence of Enterococcus faecalis

(2010) André Le Jeune et al.   PLoS One

Screening of In Vivo Activated Genes in Enterococcus faecalis during Insect and Mouse Infections and Growth in Urine

(2010) Aurelie Hanin et al.   PLoS One

Mechanism of chromosomal transfer of Enterococcus faecalis pathogenicity island, capsule, antimicrobial resistance, and other traits

(2010) J. M. Manson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Inducible expression eliminates the fitness cost of vancomycin resistance in enterococci

(2010) M.-L. Foucault et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Intrinsic resistance to aminoglycosides in Enterococcus faecium is conferred by the 16S rRNA m5C1404-specific methyltransferase EfmM

(2010) M. Galimand et al.   RNA

A Catalog of Reference Genomes from the Human Microbiome

(2010) et al.   SCIENCE

Multidrug-Resistant Enterococci Lack CRISPR-cas

(2010) K. L. Palmer et al.   mBio

Characterization of theebpfmpilus-encoding operon ofEnterococcus faeciumand its role in biofilm formation and virulence in a murine model of urinary tract infection

(2010) Jouko Sillanpää et al.   Virulence

Importance of the Collagen Adhesin Ace in Pathogenesis and Protection against Enterococcus faecalis Experimental Endocarditis

(2010) Kavindra V. Singh et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Influence of Recombination on Development of Mutational Resistance to Linezolid in Enterococcus faecalis JH2-2

(2009) L. Boumghar-Bourtchai et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Cotransfer of Antibiotic Resistance Genes and a hylEfm-Containing Virulence Plasmid in Enterococcus faecium

(2009) C. A. Arias et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Comparative genomics of Enterococcus faecalis from healthy Norwegian infants

(2009) Margrete Solheim et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Transition ofEnterococcus faeciumfrom commensal organism to nosocomial pathogen

(2009) Rob JL Willems et al.   Future Microbiology

ace, Which Encodes an Adhesin in Enterococcus faecalis, Is Regulated by Ers and Is Involved in Virulence

(2009) F. Lebreton et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Enterococcus faecalis Capsular Polysaccharide Serotypes C and D and Their Contributions to Host Innate Immune Evasion

(2009) L. R. Thurlow et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Further Characterization of the epa Gene Cluster and Epa Polysaccharides of Enterococcus faecalis

(2009) F. Teng et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Secular Trends of Hospitalization With Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus Infection in the United States, 2000–2006

(2009) Andrew M. Ramsey et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Importance of theepaLocus ofEnterococcus faecalisOG1RF in a Mouse Model of Ascending Urinary Tract Infection

(2009) Kavindra V. Singh et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Enterococcal Surface Protein Transiently AggravatesEnterococcus faecium–Induced Urinary Tract Infection in Mice

(2009) Masja Leendertse et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Analysis of Clonality and Antibiotic Resistance among Early Clinical Isolates ofEnterococcus faeciumin the United States

(2009) Jessica R. Galloway‐Peña et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Glycolipids are involved in biofilm accumulation and prolonged bacteraemia inEnterococcus faecalis

(2009) Christian Theilacker et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

A fratricidal mechanism is responsible for eDNA release and contributes to biofilm development ofEnterococcus faecalis

(2009) Vinai Chittezham Thomas et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

LPxTG surface proteins of enterococci

(2009) Antoni P.A. Hendrickx et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Emergence and management of drug-resistant enterococcal infections

(2008) Cesar A Arias et al.   Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy

Acquired vancomycin resistance in clinically relevant pathogens

(2008) Guido Werner et al.   Future Microbiology

An AraC-Type Transcriptional Regulator Encoded on the Enterococcus faecalis Pathogenicity Island Contributes to Pathogenesis and Intracellular Macrophage Survival

(2008) P. S. Coburn et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

A Functional Collagen Adhesin Gene, acm, in Clinical Isolates of Enterococcus faecium Correlates with the Recent Success of This Emerging Nosocomial Pathogen

(2008) S. R. Nallapareddy et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Antimicrobial-Resistant Pathogens Associated With Healthcare-Associated Infections: Annual Summary of Data Reported to the National Healthcare Safety Network at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2006–2007

(2008) Alicia I. Hidron et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Transferable Capacity for Gastrointestinal Colonization inEnterococcus faeciumin a Mouse Model

(2008) Louis B. Rice et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Expression of two distinct types of pili by a hospital-acquired Enterococcus faecium isolate

(2008) A. P. A. Hendrickx et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Identification and phenotypic characterization of a second collagen adhesin, Scm, and genome-based identification and analysis of 13 other predicted MSCRAMMs, including four distinct pilus loci, in Enterococcus faecium

(2008) J. Sillanpaa et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Vancomycin-resistant enterococci exploit antibiotic-induced innate immune deficits

(2008) Katharina Brandl et al.   NATURE

The oxazolidinone antibiotics perturb the ribosomal peptidyl-transferase center and effect tRNA positioning

(2008) D. N. Wilson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The molecular switch that activates the cell wall anchoring step of pilus assembly in gram-positive bacteria

(2008) A. Mandlik et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Large scale variation in Enterococcus faecalis illustrated by the genome analysis of strain OG1RF

(2008) Agathe Bourgogne et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY