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Emergence of high-risk multidrug-resistant Enterococcus faecalis CC2 (ST181) and CC87 (ST28) causing healthcare-associated infections in India.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Nov 2020
Rao Chandrabhan, Dhawan Benu, Vishnubhatla Sreenivas, Kapil Arti, Das Bimal, Sood Seema
Abstract excerpt
High-risk hospital-associated multidrug-resistant (MDR) Enterococcus faecalis clonal complexes (CCs) such as CC2 and CC87 are enriched with virulence determinants that help to accumulate, colonize, and cause serious nosocomial infections. The aim of this study was to establish the epidemiology and clonal composition of 134 clinical E. faecalis isolates and to link molecular typing data with antimicrobial...
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