Enterococcus hirae

Enterococcus hirae is a species of Enterococcus.^[1][2] Its type strain is NCDO 1258. It is involved in growth depression in young chickens and endocarditis^[3][4] and sepsis in humans.^[5]

Enterococcus hirae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Bacilli
Order:	Lactobacillales
Family:	Enterococcaceae
Genus:	Enterococcus
Species:	E. hirae
Binomial name
Enterococcus hirae Farrow & Collins, 1985

References

1. Farrow, J. A. E.; Collins, M. D. (1985). "Enterococcus hirae, a New Species That Includes Amino Acid Assay Strain NCDO 1258 and Strains Causing Growth Depression in Young Chickens". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 35 (1): 73–75. doi:10.1099/00207713-35-1-73. ISSN 0020-7713.
2. Devriese, L.A.; Vancanneyt, M.; Descheemaeker, P.; Baele, M.; Van Landuyt, H.W.; Gordts, B.; Butaye, P.; Swings, J.; Haesebrouck, F. (2002). "Differentiation and identification of Enterococcus durans, E. hirae and E. villorum". Journal of Applied Microbiology. 92 (5): 821–827. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2672.2002.01586.x. ISSN 1364-5072. PMID 11972684.
3. Poyart, C.; Lambert, T.; Morand, P.; Abassade, P.; Quesne, G.; Baudouy, Y.; Trieu-Cuot, P. (2002). "Native Valve Endocarditis Due to Enterococcus hirae". Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 40 (7): 2689–2690. doi:10.1128/JCM.40.7.2689-2690.2002. ISSN 0095-1137. PMC 120601. PMID 12089310.
4. Talarmin, J. P.; Pineau, S.; Guillouzouic, A.; Boutoille, D.; Giraudeau, C.; Reynaud, A.; Lepelletier, D.; Corvec, S. (2011). "Relapse of Enterococcus hirae Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis". Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 49 (3): 1182–1184. doi:10.1128/JCM.02049-10. ISSN 0095-1137. PMC 3067697. PMID 21248089.
5. Gilad J, Borer A, Riesenberg K, Peled N, Shnaider A, Schlaeffer F (August 1998). "Enterococcus hirae septicemia in a patient with end-stage renal disease undergoing hemodialysis". European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases. 17 (8): 576–7. doi:10.1007/s100960050134. PMID 9796658. Archived from the original on 1999-11-28. Retrieved 2013-07-03.

Further reading

• Epidemiology of Enterococcus: Fisher, K.; Phillips, C. (2009). "The ecology, epidemiology and virulence of Enterococcus". Microbiology. 155 (6): 1749–1757. doi:10.1099/mic.0.026385-0. ISSN 1350-0872. PMID 19383684.
• Genome sequence: Gaechter, T.; Wunderlin, C.; Schmidheini, T.; Solioz, M. (2012). "Genome Sequence of Enterococcus hirae (Streptococcus faecalis) ATCC 9790, a Model Organism for the Study of Ion Transport, Bioenergetics, and Copper Homeostasis". Journal of Bacteriology. 194 (18): 5126–5127. doi:10.1128/JB.01075-12. ISSN 0021-9193. PMC 3430321. PMID 22933757.

External links

• Type strain of Enterococcus hirae at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase