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| Furumura,Márcia T.; Figueiredo,Patricia M.S.; Carbonell,Gleize V.; Darini,Ana Lucia da Costa; Yano,Tomomasa. |
| Thirty-two clinical isolates of Enterococcus faecalis were screened for virulence factors. Twenty-four (75%) isolates produced hemolysin on Mueller-Hinton blood agar plates with sheep erythrocytes. However, the cell free heat-stable hemolysin was detected in all isolates (100%) of E. faecalis when grown in BHI-GA (BHI medium supplemented with 1% glucose and 0.03% L-arginine), but not in BHI broth alone. Twenty-four isolates (75%) produced caseinase and 23 (71.9%) lipase, but none of the isolates produced gelatinase. Fifteen (46.9%) culture filtrates caused rounding and membrane alterations with blebbing formation followed by death in HeLa and HEp-2 cells, but not in Vero cells. Thirteen isolates (40.6%) agglutinated rabbit erythrocytes, but did not produce... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Enterococcus faecalis; Virulence factors; Hemolysin; Proteases; Lipase; Cytotoxin; Biofilm. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822006000300007 |
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