Enterococcus faecalis: A Mini-Review

Virulence Factors Associated with Enterococcus Faecalis Infective Endocarditis: A Mini Review

INTRODUCTION The enterococci are accountable for up to 20% of all cases of infective endocarditis, with Enterococcus faecalis being the primary causative isolate. Infective endocarditis is a life-threatening infection of the endocardium that results in the formation of vegetations. Based on a literature review, this paper provides an overview of the virulence factors associated with E. faecalis...

Yancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis

Nosocomial infection caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) or vancomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE) has become a great deal of recent concern. Although a number of cephalosporins had been synthesized in the past, few of them was effective against these resistant bacteria. Recently, TOC-39and TOC-50^3) bearing vinyl-thio linkage attached by substituted pyridines at C-3 we...

Enterococcus faecalis endocarditis.

The increasing usage of cephalosporins, to which the enterococci are resistant, has resulted in the rising number of enterococcal infections worldwide. Enterococci are a normal part of the flora of the human gastrointestinal tract, buccal cavity, perineal skin, vagina, urethra and gallbladder, but may occur as pathogens in a number of sites causing urinary tract infections, intra-abdominal infe...

Pathogenesis of Enterococcus faecalis Infections Review of the Literature

Enterococcus faecalis in Oral Infections

Copyright: © 2014 Pinheiro ET, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Enterococcus faecalis in Oral Infections Pinheiro ET1*, and Mayer MPA2 1Discipline of Endodontics, Department of Dentistry,...