Abstract
Hospital-acquired clonal complex 17 (CC17) Enterococcus faecium strains are genetically distinct from indigenous strains and are enriched with resistance genes and virulence genes. We identified a genomic island in CC17 E. faecium tentatively encoding a metabolic pathway involved in carbohydrate transport and metabolism, which may provide a competitive advantage over the indigenous E. faecium microbiota.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 7094-7097 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Applied and Environmental Microbiology |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue number | 22 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Nov 2008 |
Keywords
- Carbohydrate Metabolism
- Cross Infection
- Enterococcus faecium
- Gene Order
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genomic Islands
- Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections
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