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Genomic and SNP analyses demonstrate a distant separation of the hospital and community-associated clades of Enterococcus faecium.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Galloway-Peña Jessica, Roh Jung Hyeob, Latorre Mauricio, Qin Xiang, Murray Barbara E
Abstract excerpt
Recent studies have pointed to the existence of two subpopulations of Enterococcus faecium, one containing primarily commensal/community-associated (CA) strains and one that contains most clinical or hospital-associated (HA) strains, including those classified by multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) as belonging to the CC17 group. The HA subpopulation more frequently has IS16, pathogenicity island(s), and plasmids...
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