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High-Quality Draft Genome Sequence of the Multidrug-Resistant Clinical Isolate Enterococcus faecium VRE16.

Suelen Scarpa de MelloDaria Van TyneAndrei Nicoli Gebieluca DabulMichael S GilmoreIlana Lopes Baratella da Cunha Camargo
Published in: Genome announcements (2016)
Specific lineages of the commensal bacterium Enterococcus faecium belonging to CC17, especially ST412, have been isolated from patients in several hospitals worldwide and harbor antibiotic resistance genes and virulence factors. Here, we report a high-quality draft genome sequence and highlight features of E. faecium VRE16, a representative of this ST.
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