Many bacteria use a cell-cell communication system called quorum sensing to coordinate
population density-dependent changes in behavior. Quorum sensing involves production of …

Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium have emerged as multi-resistant
nosocomial pathogens in immunocompromised and critically ill patients. Multi-resistant …

The emergence and rapid spread of antibiotic resistance seriously compromise the clinical
efficacy of current antibiotic therapies, representing a serious public health threat worldwide …

Intercellular chemical signaling in bacteria, commonly referred to as quorum sensing (QS),
relies on the production and detection of compounds known as pheromones to elicit …

Enterococcus faecalis is a Gram-positive commensal bacterium of the gastrointestinal tract.
E. faecalis is also an opportunistic pathogen that frequently exhibits resistance to available …

Infectious endocarditis involves formation of a microbial biofilm in vivo. Enterococcus
faecalis Aggregation Substance (Asc10) protein enhances the severity of experimental …

Enterococci have become an important cause of nosocomial infections since the late 1980s.
Several surface proteins have been implicated in contributing to infections caused by …

Expression of a large set of gene products required for conjugative transfer of the antibiotic
resistance plasmid pCF10 is controlled by cell–cell communication between plasmid-free …

In Enterococcus faecalis, lateral transfer of conjugative plasmids that encode antibiotic
resistance and virulence determinants can be induced by peptide sex pheromones. The …

Enterococcus faecalis is a common commensal bacterium in animal gastrointestinal (GI)
tracts and a leading cause of opportunistic infections of humans in the modern health care …