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Genomic epidemiology of vancomycin resistant <i>Enterococcus faecium</i> (VR <i>Efm</i> ) in Latin America: Revisiting the global VRE population structure
2019-11-14
Abstract excerpt
The prevalence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium varies across geographical regions yet little is known about its population structure in Latin America. Here, we provide a complete genomic characterization of 55 representative Latin American VR Efm recovered from 1998-2015 in 5 countries. We found that VR Efm population in the region is structured into two main clinical clades without geographical cl...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ab1e4eb8-889a-590f-9f31-32bfdbbd27fd
- DOI
- 10.1101/842013
