Near-ubiquitous presence of a vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium ST117/CT71/vanB –clone in the Rhine-Main metropolitan area of Germany

Near-ubiquitous presence of a vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium ST117/CT71/vanB –clone in the Rhine-Main metropolitan area of Germany

Whole-genome sequencing analysis of Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolates from the Frankfurt metropolitan region revealed that 78/94 isolates were MLST type ST117, cgMLST complex type CT71 with a common vanB chromosomal insertion site. This indicates circulation of a single VRE clone in...

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Veröffentlicht in:Antimicrobial resistance & infection control 2019-07, Vol.8 (1), p.128-128, Article 128
Hauptverfasser: Falgenhauer, Linda, Fritzenwanker, Moritz, Imirzalioglu, Can, Steul, Katrin, Scherer, Marlene, Heudorf, Ursel, Chakraborty, Trinad
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Sprache:eng
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Antibacterial agents
Care and treatment
cgMLST
Cloning
Distribution
DNA sequencing
Enterococcal infections
Genomes
Genomics
Infection
Microbial drug resistance
Microorganisms
Risk factors
Short Report
ST117
Vancomycin
VRE
WGS
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Zusammenfassung:Whole-genome sequencing analysis of Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolates from the Frankfurt metropolitan region revealed that 78/94 isolates were MLST type ST117, cgMLST complex type CT71 with a common vanB chromosomal insertion site. This indicates circulation of a single VRE clone in a catchment area of 5,000-km.sup.2 with 3 million inhabitants. Keywords: VRE, ST117, cgMLST, WGS
ISSN:2047-2994
2047-2994
DOI:10.1186/s13756-019-0573-8