Emergence and ongoing outbreak of ST80 vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in Guangdong province, China from 2021 to 2023: a multicenter, time-series and genomic epidemiological study

Background: Surveillance systems revealed that the prevalence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) has increased. We aim to investigate the epidemiological and genomic characteristics of VREfm in China. Methods: We collected 20,747 non-redundant E. faecium isolates from inpatients ac...

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Published in:	Emerging Microbes and Infections
Main Authors:	Cong Shen, Li Luo, Hongyun Zhou, Yinglun Xiao, Jinxiang Zeng, Liling Zhang, Jieying Pu, Jianming Zeng, Ni Zhang, Yueting Jiang, Lingqing Xu, Dingqiang Chen, Gang Li, Kuihai Wu, Hua Yu, Min Wang, Xuemin Guo, Juan Wang, Bin Huang, Cha Chen
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Taylor & Francis Group 2024-12-01
Subjects:	Enterococcus faecium ST80 vancomycin molecular epidemiology whole-genome sequencing
Online Access:	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/22221751.2024.2361030