Molecular epidemiology of the fsr locus and of gelatinase production among different subsets of Enterococcus faecalis isolates - PubMed (original) (raw)

Molecular epidemiology of the fsr locus and of gelatinase production among different subsets of Enterococcus faecalis isolates

Jill C Roberts et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2004 May.

Abstract

We examined 215 Enterococcus faecalis isolates and found that neither the two-component regulatory locus fsr (E. faecalis regulator) nor gelatinase production was more common in disease-associated isolates than in isolates colonizing healthy individuals (ca. 60 to 65%). The majority of gelatinase-negative isolates, including 14 endocarditis isolates (of 80 isolates tested), contained the previously described 23.9-kb deletion and lacked fsrA and fsrB. While these findings indicate that neither fsr nor gelatinase is required for E. faecalis to cause infection, this study did not address whether fsr or gelatinase affects the severity of disease, as it does in animal models.

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The 23.9-kb deletion affecting the fsr locus.

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Molecular epidemiology of the fsr locus and of gelatinase production among different subsets of Enterococcus faecalis isolates - PubMed (original) (raw)