Karolinska Institute
Enterococcus enriched with surface protein gene show increased adhesion
Published in Pharma Investments, Ventures and Law Weekly, January 12th, 2004
"Infection-derived Enterococcus faecium strains enriched with esp had increased ability to adhere to Caco-2 cells (p<0.05) and were less genetically diverse than esp-negative isolates," scientists in Sweden report.
"esp-Negative E. faecium fecal isolates from healthy individuals adhered significantly better than esp-negative infection isolates (p<0.05), indicating additional factors of importance to adhesion," said Bodil Lund and Charlotta Edlund at the Karolinska Institutet in...
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