Diversification and Evolution of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium during Intestinal Domination.

ABSTRACT: Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) is a leading cause of hospital-acquired infections. This is particularly true in immunocompromised patients, where the damage to the microbiota caused by antibiotics can lead to VRE domination of the intestine, increasing a patient's risk for bloodstream infection. In previous studies we observed that the intestinal domination by VRE of patients hospitalized to receive allogeneic bone marrow transplantation can persist for weeks, but little is known about subspecies diversification and evolution during prolonged domination. Here we combined a longitudinal analysis of patient data and in vivo experiments to reveal previously unappreciated subspecies dynamics during VRE domination that appeared to be stable from 16S rRNA microbiot

SUBMITTER: Dubin KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6589067 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature