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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Bashir A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5354240 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20170316 3
In a liver transplant recipient with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) surgical site and bloodstream infection, a combination of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, multilocus sequence typing, and whole genome sequencing identified that donor and recipient VRE isolates were highly similar when compared to time-matched hospital isolates. Comparison of de novo assembled isolate genomes was highly suggestive of transplant transmission rather than hospital-acquired transmission and also identifi ...[more]