Global diversity of enterococci and description of 18 novel species

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Enterococci are commensal gut microbes of most land animals. They diversified over hundreds of millions of years adapting to evolving hosts and host diets. Of over 60 known enterococcal species, Enterococcus faecalis and E. faecium uniquely emerged in the antibiotic era among leading causes of multidrug resistant hospital-associated infection. The basis for the association of particular entero...

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• Enterococcus
• Enterococcus faecium
• Evolution, Molecular
• Genetic Variation
• Genome, Bacterial
• Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
• Phylogeny
• Whole Genome Sequencing

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Literature Corpus work

17e0371f-1d04-53bc-80f3-91ed734a6128

DOI

10.1101/2023.05.18.540996