Cited 24 times since 2008 (1.4 per year) source: EuropePMC Applied and environmental microbiology, Volume 74, Issue 22, 3 1 2008, Pages 7094-7097 Identification of a novel genomic island specific to hospital-acquired clonal complex 17 Enterococcus faecium isolates. Heikens E, van Schaik W, Leavis HL, Bonten MJ, Willems RJ
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.
