Evolutionary dynamics of Enterococcus faecium reveals complex genomic relationships between isolates with independent emergence of vancomycin resistance

Microbial genomics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  van Hal, Sebastiaan J ^a   Ip, Camilla L C ^b   Ansari, M Azim ^c   Wilson, Daniel J ^d   Espedido, Bjorn A ^e   Jensen, Slade O ^e   Bowden, Rory ^b  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Enterococcus faecium; infection control; multi locus sequence typing; recombination; transposon; vancomycin resistance

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 84973473303     PISSN: 20575858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.000048     Document Type: Article

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