Emergence of novel ST1299 vanA lineages as possible cause for the striking rise of vancomycin resistance among invasive strains of Enterococcus faecium at a German university hospital

Emergence of novel ST1299 vanA lineages as possible cause for the striking rise of vancomycin resistance among invasive strains of Enterococcus faecium at a German university hospital

ABSTRACT Since 2019, we have observed a remarkable rise of vancomycin resistance among invasive strains of Enterococcus (E.) faecium at the University Hospital Erlangen (UKER), a tertiary-care hospital in Germany. Here, we analyzed the genetic diversity of E. faecium isolated from blood cultures of...

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Main Authors: Giuseppe Valenza, David Eisenberger, Sven Voigtländer, Rayya Alsalameh, Roman Gerlach, Sonja Koch, Bernd Kunz, Jürgen Held, Christian Bogdan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2023-12-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
Subjects:
Enterococcus faecium
vancomycin resistance
bloodstream Infection
core genome multilocus sequence typing
ST1299 vanA
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.02962-23

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https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.02962-23

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