Beyond to the Stable: Role of the Insertion Sequences as Epidemiological Descriptors in Corynebacterium striatum.

ABSTRACT: In recent years, epidemiological studies of infectious agents have focused mainly on the pathogen and stable components of its genome. The use of these stable components makes it possible to know the evolutionary or epidemiological relationships of the isolates of a particular pathogen. Under this approach, focused on the pathogen, the identification of resistance genes is a complementary stage of a bacterial characterization process or an appendix of its epidemiological characterization, neglecting its genetic components' acquisition or dispersal mechanisms. Today we know that a large part of antibiotic resistance is associated with mobile elements. Corynebacterium striatum, a bacterium from the normal skin microbiota, is also an opportunistic pathogen. In recent years, reports of

SUBMITTER: Leyton-Carcaman B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8811144 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature