Top-Down Genomic Surveillance Approach To Investigate the Genomic Epidemiology and Antibiotic Resistance Patterns of Enterococcus faecium Detected in Cancer Patients in Arkansas.

ABSTRACT: Control of hospital-associated Enterococcus faecium infection is a strenuous task due to the difficulty of identifying transmission routes and the persistence of this nosocomial pathogen despite the implementation of infection control measures that have been successful with other important nosocomial pathogens. This study provides a comprehensive analysis of over 100 E. faecium isolates collected from 66 cancer patients at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) between June 2018 and May 2019. In the top-down approach used in this study, we employed, in addition to the 106 E. faecium UAMS isolates, a filtered set of 2,167 E. faecium strains from the GenBank database to assess the current population structure of E. faecium species and, consequently, to identify the lineages a

SUBMITTER: Udaondo Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10269635 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature