Title |
Comprehensive molecular, genomic and phenotypic analysis of a major clone of Enterococcus faecalis MLST ST40
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Published in |
BMC Genomics, March 2015
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DOI | 10.1186/s12864-015-1367-x |
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Authors |
Melanie Zischka, Carsten T Künne, Jochen Blom, Dominique Wobser, Türkân Sakιnç, Kerstin Schmidt-Hohagen, P Wojtek Dabrowski, Andreas Nitsche, Johannes Hübner, Torsten Hain, Trinad Chakraborty, Burkhard Linke, Alexander Goesmann, Sonja Voget, Rolf Daniel, Dietmar Schomburg, Rüdiger Hauck, Hafez M Hafez, Petra Tielen, Dieter Jahn, Margrete Solheim, Ewa Sadowy, Jesper Larsen, Lars B Jensen, Patricia Ruiz-Garbajosa, Dianelys Quiñones Pérez, Theresa Mikalsen, Jennifer Bender, Matthias Steglich, Ulrich Nübel, Wolfgang Witte, Guido Werner |
Abstract |
Enterococcus faecalis is a multifaceted microorganism known to act as a beneficial intestinal commensal bacterium. It is also a dreaded nosocomial pathogen causing life-threatening infections in hospitalised patients. Isolates of a distinct MLST type ST40 represent the most frequent strain type of this species, distributed worldwide and originating from various sources (animal, human, environmental) and different conditions (colonisation/infection). Since enterococci are known to be highly recombinogenic we determined to analyse the microevolution and niche adaptation of this highly distributed clonal type. |
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