Genetics of Enterococcal Bacteriocins

Diversityof enterococcal bacteriocins and theirgrouping inanew classi¢cation scheme

classi¢cation scheme Charles M. A. P. Franz, Marco J. van Belkum, Wilhelm H. Holzapfel, Hikmate Abriouel & Antonio Gálvez Federal Research Centre for Nutrition and Food, Institute for Hygiene and Toxicology, Karlsruhe, Germany; Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; and Departamento de Ciencias de la Salud, Área de Microbiologı́a, Facultad de Ciencias Experime...

Bacteriocins with a broader antimicrobial spectrum prevail in enterococcal symbionts isolated from the hoopoe's uropygial gland.

The use of compounds produced by symbiotic bacteria against pathogens in animals is one of the most exciting discoveries in ecological immunology. The study of those antibiotic metabolites will enable an understanding of the defensive strategies against pathogenic infections. Here, we explore the role of bacteriocins explaining the antimicrobial properties of symbiotic bacteria isolated from th...

The Bacteriocins.

Overtreatment of enterococcal bacteriuria.

BACKGROUND The purposes of this study were to investigate the clinical outcomes of enterococcal bacteriuria and to determine whether current management is adherent to Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines. METHODS We conducted a retrospective medical record review of patients from 2 academic teaching hospitals for 3 months (September 1 through November 30, 2009). Patients were cla...

Pneumoviruses: Molecular Genetics and Reverse Genetics

Pneumoviruses are responsible for significant respiratory disease in their hosts and represent a major problemfor human and animal health. Pneumoviruses are members of the family Paramyxoviridae, subfamilyPneumovirinae and the virus particles consist of a negative-sense, nonsegmented RNA genome within a helical nucleocapsid structure enveloped in a lipid membrane derived from the ho...