Near-ubiquitous presence of a vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium ST117/CT71/vanB –clone in the Rhine-Main metropolitan area of Germany

Abstract Whole-genome sequencing analysis of Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolates from the Frankfurt metropolitan region revealed that 78/94 isolates were MLST type ST117, cgMLST complex type CT71 with a common vanB chromosomal insertion site. This indicates circulation of a single VRE...

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Principais autores:	Linda Falgenhauer, Moritz Fritzenwanker, Can Imirzalioglu, Katrin Steul, Marlene Scherer, Rhine-Main VREfm study group, Ursel Heudorf, Trinad Chakraborty
Formato:	Artigo
Idioma:	Inglês
Publicado em:	BMC 2019-07-01
coleção:	Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
Assuntos:	VRE ST117 cgMLST WGS
Acesso em linha:	http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13756-019-0573-8
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