Article
A three-year whole genome sequencing perspective of Enterococcus faecium sepsis in Australia.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2020
Lee Terence, Pang Stanley, Stegger Marc, Sahibzada Shafi, Abraham Sam, Daley Denise, Coombs Geoffrey
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Over the last three decades, hospital adapted clonal complex (CC) 17 strains of Enterococcus faecium have acquired and exchanged antimicrobial resistance genes leading to the widespread resistance to clinically important antimicrobials globally. In Australia, a high prevalence of vancomycin resistance has been reported in E. faecium in the last decade. METHODS: In this study, we determined the...
Topics
- Australia
- Enterococcus faecium
- Humans
- Phylogeny
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Sepsis
- Vancomycin Resistance
- Whole Genome Sequencing