Quorum-sensing systems control major virulence determinants in Enterococcus faecalis,
which causes nosocomial infections. The E. faecalis quorum-sensing systems include …

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 …

Introduction Cells that simultaneously secrete and sense the same signaling molecule are
ubiquitous. Bacteria sense a quorum by secreting and sensing an autoinducer; T cells …

This paper reviews the occurrence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in insects, rodents, and
pets. Insects (eg, houseflies, cockroaches), rodents (rats, mice), and pets (dogs, cats) act as …

Bacteria frequently acquire novel genes by horizontal gene transfer (HGT). HGT through the
process of bacterial conjugation is highly efficient and depends on the presence of …

Conjugative plasmids are the main carriers of transmissible antibiotic resistance (AbR)
genes. For that reason, strategies to control plasmid transmission have been proposed as …

Antibiotic resistance is a global threat that should be urgently resolved. Finding a new
antibiotic is one way, whereas the repression of the dissemination of virulent pathogenic …

Type IV Secretion Systems (T4SSs) are membrane-spanning multiprotein complexes
dedicated to protein secretion or conjugative DNA transport (conjugation systems) in …

Plasmids transfer at highly variable rates that spread over 10 orders of magnitude. While
rates have been measured for decades and it is known that the rates are affected bysome …