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We found that the transfer of vancomycin resistance in\n                    <jats:italic>Enterococcus faecalis<\/jats:italic>\n                    increased more than 30-fold upon treatment by streptomycin. Notably, treatment with an antibiotic caused the bacteria to become resistant to another. The response was even stronger in the well-studied plasmid pCF10 and the number of transconjugants increased about 100,000-fold. We tested four different antibiotics, and all of them induced conjugal response. Through a mathematical model based on gene regulation, we found a plausible explanation.\n                    <jats:italic>Via<\/jats:italic>\n                    quorum sensing, the change of the cell density triggers the conjugation. Moreover, we searched for generality and found a similar strategy in\n                    <jats:italic>Bacillus subtilis<\/jats:italic>\n                    . 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