Browsing Harvard Medical School by Keyword "horizontal gene transfer"
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Mechanism of chromosomal transfer of Enterococcus faecalis pathogenicity island, capsule, antimicrobial resistance, and other traits
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010)The Enterococcus faecalis pathogenicity island (PAI) encodes known virulence traits and >100 additional genes with unknown roles in enterococcal biology. Phage-related integration and excision genes, and direct repeats ...