Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections

"Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Infections caused by bacteria that retain the crystal violet stain (positive) when treated by the gram-staining method.

Descriptor ID	D016908
MeSH Number(s)	C01.252.410
Concept/Terms	Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections Gram Positive Bacterial Infections Infections, Gram-Positive Bacterial Bacterial Infection, Gram-Positive Gram-Positive Bacterial Infection Infection, Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections, Gram Positive Bacterial Bacterial Infections, Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections, Gram Positive

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Diseases [C]
Bacterial Infections and Mycoses [C01]
Bacterial Infections [C01.252]
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections [C01.252.410]

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2001	0	1	1
2003	1	0	1
2007	1	0	1
2008	1	0	1
2009	0	1	1
2014	1	0	1
2015	0	1	1
2016	1	1	2
2017	2	1	3
2019	0	1	1
2020	2	0	2
2024	2	1	3
2025	3	1	4
2026	2	1	3

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Tanoto FR, Liew JH, Stocks CJ, Rawat D, Chong KKL, Pethe K, Antypas H, Kline KA. Gelatinase regulates the egress of intracellular replicating populations during Enterococcus faecalis infection. PLoS Pathog. 2026 Mar; 22(3):e1013738.

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da Silva RAG, Tien BYQ, Kao PHN, Antypas H, Celik C, Tan AZC, Ismail MH, Hu G, Chong KKL, Thibault G, Chen J, Kline KA. Enterococcus faecalis-derived lactic acid suppresses macrophage activation to facilitate persistent and polymicrobial wound infections. Cell Host Microbe. 2026 Feb 11; 34(2):245-262.e8.

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Antypas H, Schmidtchen V, Staiger WI, Yanhong LI, Tan RJW, Ng KKF, Neo CJY, Radhesh SM, Tanoto FR, da Silva RAG, Colomer-Winter C, Sch?tz SD, Kloehn J, Muthualagu Natarajan L, Manzano C, Wong JJ, Pethe K, Hasse B, Brugger SD, Wong SL, Van Tyne D, Zinkernagel AS, Kline KA. Loss of Fsr quorum sensing promotes biofilm formation and worsens outcomes in enterococcal infective endocarditis. Nat Commun. 2026 Jan 14; 17(1):1668.

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Stocks CJ, da Silva RAG, Antypas H, Jeyabalan N, Wong SL, Kline KA. Enterococcus faecalis persists and replicates intracellularly within neutrophils. Infect Immun. 2026 Jan 13; 94(1):e0036425.

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Kapitan M, Niemiec MJ, Millet N, Brandt P, Chowdhury MEK, Czapka A, Abdissa K, Hoffmann F, Lange A, Veleba M, Nietzsche S, Mosig AS, L?ffler B, Marquet M, Makarewicz O, Kline KA, Vylkova S, Swidergall M, Jacobsen ID. Synergistic interactions between Candida albicans and Enterococcus faecalis promote toxin-dependent host cell damage. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025 Nov 18; 122(46):e2505310122.

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Parga A, Mattu J, Belibasakis GN, Kline KA, Leprince JG, Manoil D. A polymicrobial perspective into the ecological role of Enterococcus faecalis in dental root canal infections. NPJ Biofilms Microbiomes. 2025 May 22; 11(1):83.

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Ho FK, Lam LN, Matysik A, Watts TD, Wong JJ, Chong KKL, Choo PY, Tolar J, Low PM, Chua ZS, Paxman JJ, Heras B, Marsili E, Ajo-Franklin CM, Kline KA. Role of sortase-assembled Ebp pili in Enterococcus faecalis adhesion to iron oxides and its impact on extracellular electron transfer. Microbiol Spectr. 2025 Mar 04; 13(3):e0233724.

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Archambaud C, Nunez N, da Silva RAG, Kline KA, Serror P. Enterococcus faecalis: an overlooked cell invader. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev. 2024 Sep 26; 88(3):e0006924.

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Celik C, Lee STT, Tanoto FR, Veleba M, Kline K, Thibault G. Decoding the complexity of delayed wound healing following Enterococcus faecalis infection. Elife. 2024 May 20; 13.

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da Silva RAG, Stocks CJ, Hu G, Kline KA, Chen J. Bosutinib Stimulates Macrophage Survival, Phagocytosis, and Intracellular Killing of Bacteria. ACS Infect Dis. 2024 05 10; 10(5):1725-1738.

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