The global dissemination of hospital clones of Enterococcus faecium.
Sebastiaan J Van HalRob J L WillemsTheodore GouliourisSusan A BallardTeresa M CoqueAnette M HammerumKristin HegstadHendrik T WesthBenjamin P HowdenSurbhi Malhotra-KumarGuido WernerKatsunori YanagiharaAshlee M EarlKatherine E RavenJukka CoranderRory Bowdennull nullPublished in: Genome medicine (2021)
The ability of A1 E. faecium to continually present new combinations of genes for potential selection suggests that controlling this pathogen will remain challenging but establishing a framework for understanding genomic evolution is likely to aid in tracking the threats posed by newly emerging lineages.