Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium sequence type 796 - rapid international dissemination of a new epidemic clone

Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium sequence type 796 - rapid international dissemination of a new epidemic clone

Background: Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) is a leading cause of hospital-acquired infections. New, presumably better-adapted strains of VRE appear unpredictably; it is uncertain how they spread despite improved infection control. We aimed to investigate the relatedness of a novel s...

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Main Authors: Mahony, A., Buultjens, A., Ballard, S., Grabsch, E., Xie, S., Seemann, T., Stuart, R., Kotsanas, D., Cheng, A., Heffernan, H., Roberts, S., Coombs, Geoffrey, Bak, N., Ferguson, J., Carter, G., Howden, B., Stinear, T., Johnson, P.
Format: Journal Article
Published: BioMed Central Ltd. 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/70263

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