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Multilocus sequence typing scheme for Enterococcus faecalis reveals hospital-adapted genetic complexes in a background of high rates of recombination.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jun 2006
Ruiz-Garbajosa Patricia, Bonten Marc J M, Robinson D Ashley, Top Janetta, Nallapareddy Sreedhar R, Torres Carmen, Coque Teresa M, Cantón Rafael, Baquero Fernando, Murray Barbara E, del Campo Rosa, Willems Rob J L
Abstract excerpt
A multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme based on seven housekeeping genes was used to investigate the epidemiology and population structure of Enterococcus faecalis. MLST of 110 isolates from different sources and geographic locations revealed 55 different sequence types that grouped into four major clonal complexes (CC2, CC9, CC10, and CC21) by use of eBURST. Two of these clonal complexes, CC2 and CC9, are...
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