Emergence of Epidemic Multidrug-Resistant <named-content content-type="genus-species">Enterococcus faecium</named-content> from Animal and Commensal Strains

ABSTRACT Enterococcus faecium, natively a gut commensal organism, emerged as a leading cause of multidrug-resistant hospital-acquired infection in the 1980s. As the living record of its adaptation to changes in habitat, we sequenced the genomes of 51 strains, isolated from various ecological environ...

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Main Authors: François Lebreton, Willem van Schaik, Abigail Manson McGuire, Paul Godfrey, Allison Griggs, Varun Mazumdar, Jukka Corander, Lu Cheng, Sakina Saif, Sarah Young, Qiandong Zeng, Jennifer Wortman, Bruce Birren, Rob J. L. Willems, Ashlee M. Earl, Michael S. Gilmore
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Language:EN
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2013
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/f679147b67f94fe797ff7b54ab909f2f
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