Enterococcus Epidemiology
Recombination is an important mechanism driving Enterococcus faecalis genetic variation
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, August 22nd, 2006
"A multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme based on seven housekeeping genes was used to investigate the epidemiology and population structure of Enterococcus faecalis.
"MLST of 110 isolates from different sources and geographic locations revealed 55 different sequence types that grouped into four major clonal complexes (CC2, CC9, CC10, and CC21) by use of eBURST," scientists writing in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology report.
According to the authors, "Two of these clonal complexes, CC2 and CC9, are...
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