Genomics of Serratia marcescens Isolates Causing Outbreaks in the Same Pediatric Unit 47 Years Apart: Position in an Updated Phylogeny of the Species

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The first documented nosocomial outbreak caused by Serratia marcescens in Spain occurred in 1969 at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of the tertiary La Paz Children’s Hospital in Madrid, Spain, and based on the available phenotyping techniques at this time, it was considered as a monoclonal outbreak. Only forty-seven years later, another S. marcescens outbreak of an equivalent dimension occurred at the...