Genomic and SNP analyses demonstrate a distant separation of the hospital and community-associated clades of Enterococcus faecium.

Recent studies have pointed to the existence of two subpopulations of Enterococcus faecium, one containing primarily commensal/community-associated (CA) strains and one that contains most clinical or hospital-associated (HA) strains, including those classified by multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) a...

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Main Authors: Jessica Galloway-Peña, Jung Hyeob Roh, Mauricio Latorre, Xiang Qin, Barbara E Murray
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3266884?pdf=render