Enterococcal biofilm—A nidus for antibiotic resistance transfer?

A Novel Biofilm Model System to Visualise Conjugal Transfer of Vancomycin Resistance by Environmental Enterococci

(2021) Michael Conwell et al.   Microorganisms

Comparative Biofilm Assays Using Enterococcus faecalis OG1RF Identify New Determinants of Biofilm Formation

(2021) Julia L. E. Willett et al.   mBio

Comparative genomics of multidrug-resistant Enterococcus spp. isolated from wastewater treatment plants

(2020) Haley Sanderson et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Overcoming the challenge of establishing biofilms in vivo: a roadmap for Enterococci

(2020) Casandra Ai Zhu Tan et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Biofilms: Hot spots of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in aquatic environments, with a focus on a new HGT mechanism

(2020) Kimihiro Abe et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Flexibility and Adaptability of Quorum Sensing in Nature

(2020) Rebecca D. Prescott et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Plasmids Shaped the Recent Emergence of the Major Nosocomial Pathogen Enterococcus faecium

(2020) S. Arredondo-Alonso et al.   mBio

Parallel Genomics Uncover Novel Enterococcal-Bacteriophage Interactions

(2020) Anushila Chatterjee et al.   mBio

Re-epithelialization and immune cell behaviour in an ex vivo human skin model

(2020) Ana Rakita et al.   Scientific Reports

Does vancomycin resistance increase mortality in Enterococcus faecium bacteraemia after orthotopic liver transplantation? A retrospective study

(2020) S. Dubler et al.   Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control

Competent but complex communication: The phenomena of pheromone-responsive plasmids

(2020) Amy J. Sterling et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Enterococcus faecalis Adapts to Antimicrobial Conjugated Oligoelectrolytes by Lipid Rearrangement and Differential Expression of Membrane Stress Response Genes

(2020) Gayatri Shankar Chilambi et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Potential Risk of Spreading Resistance Genes within Extracellular-DNA-Dependent Biofilms of Streptococcus mutans in Response to Cell Envelope Stress Induced by Sub-MICs of Bacitracin

(2020) Ryo Nagasawa et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microplastics provide new microbial niches in aquatic environments

(2020) Yuyi Yang et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Involvement of Chromosomally Encoded Homologs of the RRNPP Protein Family in Enterococcus faecalis Biofilm Formation and Urinary Tract Infection Pathogenesis

(2020) Srivatsan Parthasarathy et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Comparative genomics of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus spp. revealed common resistome determinants from hospital wastewater to aquatic environments

(2020) Mutshiene Deogratias Ekwanzala et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Influence of Catecholamines (Epinephrine/Norepinephrine) on Biofilm Formation and Adhesion in Pathogenic and Probiotic Strains of Enterococcus faecalis

(2020) Mélyssa Cambronel et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Biofilm Forming Antibiotic Resistant Gram-Positive Pathogens Isolated From Surfaces on the International Space Station

(2019) Lydia-Yasmin Sobisch et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Enterococcal PcfF Is a Ribbon-Helix-Helix Protein That Recruits the Relaxase PcfG Through Binding and Bending of the oriT Sequence

(2019) Saima Rehman et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Comparison of biochemical and genotypic speciation methods for vancomycin-resistant enterococci isolated from urban wastewater treatment plants

(2019) Haley Sanderson et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

Efficacy and safety assessment of two enterococci phages in an in vitro biofilm wound model

(2019) Luís D. R. Melo et al.   Scientific Reports

Pathogenicity of Enterococci

(2019) Elizabeth Fiore et al.   Microbiology Spectrum

Comparative genomic analysis revealed great plasticity and environmental adaptation of the genomes of Enterococcus faecium

(2019) Zhi Zhong et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The influence of substrate surface conditioning and biofilm age on the composition of Enterococcus faecalis biofilms

(2019) I. A. A. Ali et al.   INTERNATIONAL ENDODONTIC JOURNAL

Characterization of the gen locus involved in β‐1,6‐oligosaccharide utilization by Enterococcus faecalis

(2019) Maxime Grand et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Antibiotic Susceptibility, Biofilm-Forming Ability, and Incidence of Class 1 Integron of Salmonella spp., Escherichia coli, and Staphylococcus aureus Isolated from Various Foods in a School Canteen in China

(2019) Wen Wang et al.   Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Molecular epidemiology of antibiotic-resistant Enterococcus spp. from the farm-to-fork continuum in intensive poultry production in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

(2019) Chantal Molechan et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Enterococcus faecalis MalR acts as a repressor of the maltose operons and additionally mediates their catabolite repression via direct interaction with seryl‐phosphorylated‐HPr

(2019) Maxime Grand et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Evolution of virulence in Enterococcus faecium , a hospital-adapted opportunistic pathogen

(2018) Wei Gao et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Mechanistic Features of the Enterococcal pCF10 Sex Pheromone Response and the Biology of Enterococcus faecalis in Its Natural Habitat

(2018) Rebecca J. Breuer et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Expression of Adhesive Pili and the Collagen-binding Adhesin ACE is Activated by ArgR Family Transcription Factors in Enterococcus faecalis.

(2018) Dawn A. Manias et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci: A Review of Antimicrobial Resistance Mechanisms and Perspectives of Human and Animal Health

(2018) Mohamed O. Ahmed et al.   Microbial Drug Resistance

Quantitative Proteomics of Strong and Weak Biofilm Formers ofEnterococcus faecalisReveals Novel Regulators of Biofilm Formation

(2018) Tanujaa Suriyanarayanan et al.   MOLECULAR & CELLULAR PROTEOMICS

PrgB Promotes Aggregation, Biofilm Formation, and Conjugation through DNA Binding and Compaction

(2018) Andreas Schmitt et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Broad-host-range Inc18 plasmids: Occurrence, spread and transfer mechanisms

(2018) Verena Kohler et al.   PLASMID

Enterococcus faecalis Sex Pheromone cCF10 Enhances Conjugative Plasmid Transfer In Vivo

(2018) Helmut Hirt et al.   mBio

Outbreak report: a nosocomial outbreak of vancomycin resistant enterococci in a solid organ transplant unit

(2018) Peter Kreidl et al.   Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control

Unexpected evolutionary benefit to phages imparted by bacterial CRISPR-Cas9

(2018) Pan Tao et al.   Science Advances

Antimicrobial Resistant CC17 Enterococcus faecium: The Past, the Present and the Future

(2018) Terence Lee et al.   Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance

Characterization of a new transferable MDR plasmid carrying the pbp5 gene from a clade B commensal Enterococcus faecium

(2018) Gianluca Morroni et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Using groEL as the target for identification of Enterococcus faecium clades and 7 clinically relevant Enterococcus species

(2018) Wei-Wen Hung et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY IMMUNOLOGY AND INFECTION

Biofilm-associated infection by enterococci

(2018) Jun-Hong Ch’ng et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The Enterococcus Cassette Chromosome, a Genomic Variation Enabler in Enterococci

(2018) A. Sivertsen et al.   mSphere

Biofilm formation capability of enterococcal strains causing urinary tract infection vis-a-vis colonisation and correlation with enterococcal surface protein gene

(2017) Neelam Taneja et al.   Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology

Emergence of vanA Enterococcus faecium in Denmark, 2005–15

(2017) Anette M. Hammerum et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Enterococci in orthopaedic infections: Who is at risk getting infected?

(2017) Ilker Uçkay et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTION

Streptococcus gordonii pheromone s.g.cAM373 may influence the reservoir of antibiotic resistance determinants of Enterococcus faecalis origin in the oral metagenome

(2017) Jillian M. Mansfield et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Model systems for the study of Enterococcal colonization and infection

(2017) H. M. Sharon Goh et al.   Virulence

Characteristics of and Virulence Factors Associated with Biofilm Formation in Clinical Enterococcus faecalis Isolates in China

(2017) Jin-Xin Zheng et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Sensational biofilms: surface sensing in bacteria

(2016) George A O’Toole et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Enterococcal Sex Pheromones: Evolutionary Pathways to Complex, Two-Signal Systems

(2016) Gary M. Dunny et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Resistance Mechanisms, Epidemiology, and Approaches to Screening for Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus in the Health Care Setting

(2016) Matthew L. Faron et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Biofilms: an emergent form of bacterial life

(2016) Hans-Curt Flemming et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Facultative cheating supports the coexistence of diverse quorum-sensing alleles

(2016) Shaul Pollak et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Molecular Basis for Lytic Bacteriophage Resistance in Enterococci

(2016) Breck A. Duerkop et al.   mBio

Population structure and acquisition of the vanB resistance determinant in German clinical isolates of Enterococcus faecium ST192

(2016) Jennifer K. Bender et al.   Scientific Reports

Enterococcus faecalis readily colonizes the entire gastrointestinal tract and forms biofilms in a germ-free mouse model

(2016) Aaron M. T. Barnes et al.   Virulence

Multiple Roles for Enterococcus faecalis Glycosyltransferases in Biofilm-Associated Antibiotic Resistance, Cell Envelope Integrity, and Conjugative Transfer

(2015) Jennifer L. Dale et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Comprehensive molecular, genomic and phenotypic analysis of a major clone of Enterococcus faecalis MLST ST40

(2015) Melanie Zischka et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Investigating the mobilome in clinically important lineages of Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis

(2015) Theresa Mikalsen et al.   BMC GENOMICS

ESCMID∗ guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of biofilm infections 2014

(2015) N. Høiby et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Role of the Environment in the Transmission of Antimicrobial Resistance to Humans: A Review

(2015) Patricia M. C. Huijbers et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Genome Modification in Enterococcus faecalis OG1RF Assessed by Bisulfite Sequencing and Single-Molecule Real-Time Sequencing

(2015) Wenwen Huo et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Survivability of Microbes in Natural Environments and Their Ecological Impacts

(2015) Shin Haruta et al.   MICROBES AND ENVIRONMENTS

Artificial biofilms establish the role of matrix interactions in staphylococcal biofilm assembly and disassembly

(2015) Elizabeth J. Stewart et al.   Scientific Reports

The Pho regulon: a huge regulatory network in bacteria

(2015) Fernando Santos-Beneit   Frontiers in Microbiology

Outbreak of Vancomycin-Susceptible Enterococcus faecium Containing the Wild-Type vanA Gene

(2014) T. A. Szakacs et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Enterococcus faecalis pCF10-encoded surface proteins PrgA, PrgB (aggregation substance) and PrgC contribute to plasmid transfer, biofilm formation and virulence

(2014) Minny Bhatty et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

A Widely Used In Vitro Biofilm Assay Has Questionable Clinical Significance for Enterococcal Endocarditis

(2014) Anne-Marie Leuck et al.   PLoS One

Molecular mechanisms of antimicrobial tolerance and resistance in bacterial and fungal biofilms

(2014) Heleen Van Acker et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

An ABC Transporter Is Required for Secretion of Peptide Sex Pheromones in Enterococcus faecalis

(2014) S. Varahan et al.   mBio

Biofilm models for the food industry: hot spots for plasmid transfer?

(2014) Eva Van Meervenne et al.   Pathogens and Disease

Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms Promote Horizontal Transfer of Antibiotic Resistance

(2013) Victoria J. Savage et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Investigation of a multiresistance gene cfr that fails to mediate resistance to phenicols and oxazolidinones in Enterococcus faecalis

(2013) Y. Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

ICESluvan, a 94-Kilobase Mosaic Integrative Conjugative Element Conferring Interspecies Transfer of VanB-Type Glycopeptide Resistance, a Novel Bacitracin Resistance Locus, and a Toxin-Antitoxin Stabilization System

(2013) E. K. Bjorkeng et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Invasion of E. coli biofilms by antibiotic resistance plasmids

(2013) Jaroslaw E. Król et al.   PLASMID

Bacteria–surface interactions

(2013) Hannah H. Tuson et al.   Soft Matter

Complete genome sequence of Enterococcus faecium strain TX16 and comparative genomic analysis of Enterococcus faecium genomes

(2012) Xiang Qin et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

The interconnection between biofilm formation and horizontal gene transfer

(2012) Jonas Stenløkke Madsen et al.   FEMS IMMUNOLOGY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Frequency of ace, epa and elrA Genes in Clinical and Environmental Strains of Enterococcus faecalis

(2012) Monika Eliza Łysakowska et al.   INDIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Strain-Specific Transfer of Antibiotic Resistance from an Environmental Plasmid to Foodborne Pathogens

(2012) Eva Van Meervenne et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICINE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

High-throughput species identification of enterococci using pyrosequencing

(2012) Rahat Zaheer et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

The rise of the Enterococcus: beyond vancomycin resistance

(2012) Cesar A. Arias et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

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

Enterococcus faecalis Produces Abundant Extracellular Structures Containing DNA in the Absence of Cell Lysis during Early Biofilm Formation

(2012) A. M. T. Barnes et al.   mBio

Comparative Genomics of Enterococci: Variation in Enterococcus faecalis, Clade Structure in E. faecium, and Defining Characteristics of E. gallinarum and E. casseliflavus

(2012) K. L. Palmer et al.   mBio

Intrinsic and acquired resistance mechanisms in enterococcus

(2012) Brian L. Hollenbeck et al.   Virulence

First Report of the Multidrug Resistance Genecfrin Enterococcus faecalis of Animal Origin

(2011) Yang Liu et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Persistent, Toxin-Antitoxin System-Independent, Tetracycline Resistance-Encoding Plasmid from a Dairy Enterococcus faecium Isolate

(2011) Xinhui Li et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Management of multidrug-resistant enterococcal infections

(2011) C.A. Arias et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Multidrug-Resistant Enterococci in Animal Meat and Faeces and Co-Transfer of Resistance from an Enterococcus durans to a Human Enterococcus faecium

(2011) Carla Vignaroli et al.   CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY

Insight into antimicrobial susceptibility and population structure of contemporary human Enterococcus faecalis isolates from Europe

(2011) A. Kuch et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Biofilm growth alters regulation of conjugation by a bacterial pheromone

(2011) Laura Cook et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Should we stay or should we go: mechanisms and ecological consequences for biofilm dispersal

(2011) Diane McDougald et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Intra- and Interspecies Genomic Transfer of the Enterococcus faecalis Pathogenicity Island

(2011) Jenny A. Laverde Gomez et al.   PLoS One

Active Starvation Responses Mediate Antibiotic Tolerance in Biofilms and Nutrient-Limited Bacteria

(2011) D. Nguyen et al.   SCIENCE

The Repertoire of ICE in Prokaryotes Underscores the Unity, Diversity, and Ubiquity of Conjugation

(2011) Julien Guglielmini et al.   PLoS Genetics

Horizontal Gene Exchange in Environmental Microbiota

(2011) Rustam I. Aminov   Frontiers in Microbiology

Dissemination of an Enterococcus Inc18-Like vanA Plasmid Associated with Vancomycin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

(2010) W. Zhu et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

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

Tn1546 is part of a larger plasmid-encoded genetic unit horizontally disseminated among clonal Enterococcus faecium lineages

(2010) H. Sletvold et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Txe, an endoribonuclease of the enterococcal Axe-Txe toxin-antitoxin system, cleaves mRNA and inhibits protein synthesis

(2010) E. M. Halvorsen et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Integrative and conjugative elements: mosaic mobile genetic elements enabling dynamic lateral gene flow

(2010) Rachel A. F. Wozniak et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Clinical Presentation, Etiology, and Outcome of Infective Endocarditis in the 21st Century

(2009) David R. Murdoch   ARCHIVES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

The ecology, epidemiology and virulence of Enterococcus

(2009) K. Fisher et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

The developmental model of microbial biofilms: ten years of a paradigm up for review

(2009) Russell D. Monds et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Transfer of the chromosomally encoded tetracycline resistance gene tet(M) from marine bacteria to Escherichia coli and Enterococcus faecalis

(2009) Farzana Ashrafi Neela et al.   WORLD JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY

Isolation of VanB-Type Enterococcus faecalis Strains from Nosocomial Infections: First Report of the Isolation and Identification of the Pheromone-Responsive Plasmids pMG2200, Encoding VanB-Type Vancomycin Resistance and a Bac41-Type Bacteriocin, and pMG2201, Encoding Erythromycin Resistance and Cytolysin (Hly/Bac)

(2008) B. Zheng et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

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

Complete sequence of Enterococcus faecium pVEF3 and the detection of an ω-ε-ζ toxin–antitoxin module and an ABC transporter

(2008) H. Sletvold et al.   PLASMID

Bacterial adhesion and biofilms on surfaces

(2008) Trevor Roger Garrett et al.   Progress in Natural Science-Materials International

Role of shear stress on composition, diversity and dynamics of biofilm bacterial communities

(2008) A ROCHEX et al.   WATER RESEARCH

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

(2008) Agathe Bourgogne et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY