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High prevalence of the recently identified clonal lineage ST1299/CT3109 vanA among vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium strains isolated from municipal wastewater.
mSphere - 25 Sept 2024
Valenza Giuseppe, Eisenberger David, Esse Jan, Held Jürgen, Lehner-Reindl Verena, Plaumann Peter-Louis, Ziegler Tobias, Knauer Max, Bogdan Christian, Dudler Patrick
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Previously, we demonstrated that the majority of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) strains from in-patients of the University Hospital Erlangen, Germany, belonged to only three clonal lineages, namely ST117/CT71 vanB and two novel ST1299 vanA lineages classified as CT3109 and CT1903. The goal of the current study was (i) to investigate whether VREfm is also detectable in wastewater of the city of...
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