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

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control (2019) 8(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s13756-019-0573-8
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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-km2 with 3 million inhabitants.

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Falgenhauer, L., Fritzenwanker, M., Imirzalioglu, C., Steul, K., Scherer, M., Albert-Braun, S., … Chakraborty, T. (2019). Near-ubiquitous presence of a vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium ST117/CT71/vanB -clone in the Rhine-Main metropolitan area of Germany. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-019-0573-8

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