Restricted gene flow among hospital subpopulations of Enterococcus faecium

mBio

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Willems, Rob J L ^a   Top, Janetta ^a   van Schaik, Willem ^a   Leavis, Helen ^a   Bonten, Marc ^a   Siŕn, Jukka ^b   Hanage, William P ^c   Corander, Jukka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALIA; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM;

EID: 84865798417     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00151-12     Document Type: Article

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