Genomic Surveillance of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium Reveals Spread of a Linear Plasmid Conferring a Nutrient Utilization Advantage-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Genomic Surveillance of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium Reveals Spread of a Linear Plasmid Conferring a Nutrient Utilization Advantage

Published:2022-04-26 Issue:2 Volume:13 Page:
ISSN:2150-7511
Container-title:mBio
language:en
Short-container-title:mBio

Author:

Boumasmoud Mathilde¹^ORCID,Dengler Haunreiter Vanina¹^ORCID,Schweizer Tiziano A.¹^ORCID,Meyer Lilly¹,Chakrakodi Bhavya¹,Schreiber Peter W.¹^ORCID,Seidl Kati¹^ORCID,Kühnert Denise¹^ORCID,Kouyos Roger D.¹^ORCID,Zinkernagel Annelies S.¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Abstract

Sequencing microbial pathogens causing outbreaks has become a common practice to characterize transmission networks. In addition to the signal provided by vertical evolution, bacterial genomes harbor mobile genetic elements shared horizontally between clones.

Funder

UZH, Clinical Research Priority Program

Swiss National Science Foundation

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Virology,Microbiology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/mbio.03771-21

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