2018-02-24Zeitschriftenartikel
The use of high-throughput sequencing to investigate an outbreak of glycopeptide-resistant Enterococcus faecium with a novel quinupristin-dalfopristin resistance mechanism
Shaw, Timothy D.; Fairley, D. J.; Schneiders, T.; Pathiraja, M.; Hill, R. L. R.; Werner, Guido; Elborn, J. S.; McMullan, R.
High-throughput sequencing (HTS) has successfully identified novel resistance genes in enterococci and determined clonal relatedness in outbreak analysis. We report the use of HTS to investigate two concurrent outbreaks ...