Enterococcal Metabolite Cues Facilitate Interspecies Niche Modulation and Polymicrobial Infection

• Main Authors: Williams, Rohan B. H., Chen, Swaine L., Dunny, Gary M., Kline, Kimberly A., Keogh, Damien, Tay, Wei Hong, Ho, Yao Yong, Dale, Jennifer L., Chen, Siyi, Umashankar, Shivshankar
• Other Authors: School of Biological Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Polymicrobial infection; Iron
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85130; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/43639
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Enterococcus faecalis is frequently associated with polymicrobial infections of the urinary tract, indwelling catheters, and surgical wound sites. E. faecalis co-exists with Escherichia coli and other pathogens in wound infections, but mechanisms that govern polymicrobial colonization and pathogenes...