Microevolutionary Events Involving Narrow Host Plasmids Influences Local Fixation of Vancomycin-Resistance in Enterococcus Populations

Clonal outbreak of ST17 multidrug-resistant Enterococcus faecium harbouring an Inc18-like::Tn1546 plasmid in a haemo-oncology ward of a Spanish hospital

(2012) S. Valdezate et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Novel Vancomycin-Resistance Transposon, Plasmid Replicon Types, and Virulence Factors of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci in Zhejiang, China

(2012) Ting-Ting Qu et al.   Microbial Drug Resistance

MRSA epidemic linked to a quickly spreading colonization and virulence determinant

(2012) Min Li et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

Hospital and Community Ampicillin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium Are Evolutionarily Closely Linked but Have Diversified through Niche Adaptation

(2012) Marieke J. A. de Regt et al.   PLoS One

Presence of Glycopeptide-Encoding Plasmids in Enterococcal Isolates from Food and Humans in Denmark

(2011) Lourdes Garcia-Migura et al.   Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Waves of trouble: MRSA strain dynamics and assessment of the impact of infection control

(2011) D. Wyllie et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Human and Swine Hosts Share Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium CC17 and CC5 and Enterococcus faecalis CC2 Clonal Clusters Harboring Tn1546 on Indistinguishable Plasmids

(2011) A. R. Freitas et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Genetic Detection and Multilocus Sequence Typing of vanA-Containing Enterococcus Strains from Mullets Fish (Liza ramada)

(2011) Carlos Araújo et al.   Microbial Drug Resistance

Large-Scale Analysis of Plasmid Relationships through Gene-Sharing Networks

(2011) M. Tamminen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Acceleration of Emergence of Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance in Connected Microenvironments

(2011) Q. Zhang et al.   SCIENCE

Dissemination of an Enterococcus Inc18-Like vanA Plasmid Associated with Vancomycin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

(2010) W. Zhu et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Global Spread of the hylEfm Colonization-Virulence Gene in Megaplasmids of the Enterococcus faecium CC17 Polyclonal Subcluster

(2010) A. R. Freitas et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

A multiresistance megaplasmid pLG1 bearing a hylEfm genomic island in hospital Enterococcus faecium isolates

(2010) Jenny A. Laverde Gomez et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Tn1546 is part of a larger plasmid-encoded genetic unit horizontally disseminated among clonal Enterococcus faecium lineages

(2010) H. Sletvold et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Txe, an endoribonuclease of the enterococcal Axe-Txe toxin-antitoxin system, cleaves mRNA and inhibits protein synthesis

(2010) E. M. Halvorsen et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Mechanism of chromosomal transfer of Enterococcus faecalis pathogenicity island, capsule, antimicrobial resistance, and other traits

(2010) J. M. Manson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dispersion of Multidrug-Resistant Enterococcus faecium Isolates Belonging to Major Clonal Complexes in Different Portuguese Settings

(2009) A. R. Freitas et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Assessment of high-level gentamicin and glycopeptide-resistant Enterococcus faecalis and E. faecium clonal structure in a Portuguese hospital over a 3-year period

(2009) R. Mato et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES

PCR-based plasmid typing inEnterococcus faeciumstrains reveals widely distributed pRE25-, pRUM-, pIP501- and pHTβ-related replicons associated with glycopeptide resistance and stabilizing toxin–antitoxin systems

(2009) Torill C.S. Rosvoll et al.   FEMS IMMUNOLOGY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Transition ofEnterococcus faeciumfrom commensal organism to nosocomial pathogen

(2009) Rob JL Willems et al.   Future Microbiology

Clonal expansion within clonal complex 2 and spread of vancomycin-resistant plasmids among different genetic lineages of Enterococcus faecalis from Portugal

(2009) A. R. Freitas et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Analysis of Clonality and Antibiotic Resistance among Early Clinical Isolates ofEnterococcus faeciumin the United States

(2009) Jessica R. Galloway‐Peña et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

A classification system for plasmids from enterococci and other Gram-positive bacteria

(2009) L.B. Jensen et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

Factors affecting the reversal of antimicrobial-drug resistance

(2009) Pål J Johnsen et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Waves of resistance: Staphylococcus aureus in the antibiotic era

(2009) Henry F. Chambers et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The replicons of Gram-positive bacteria: A family of broadly distributed but narrow host range plasmids

(2009) Keith E. Weaver et al.   PLASMID

Natural selection in action during speciation

(2009) S. Via   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Allele fixation in a dynamic metapopulation: Founder effects vs refuge effects

(2009) Robin Aguilée et al.   THEORETICAL POPULATION BIOLOGY

Diversity of Tn1546 and Its Role in the Dissemination of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci in Portugal

(2008) C. Novais et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Presence of pRI1: A Small Cryptic Mobilizable Plasmid Isolated from Enterococcus faecium of Human and Animal Origin

(2008) Lourdes Garcia-Migura et al.   CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY

Relevance of hot spots in the evolution and transmission of Tn1546 in glycopeptide-resistant Enterococcus faecium (GREF) from broiler origin

(2008) L. Garcia-Migura et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Complete sequence of Enterococcus faecium pVEF3 and the detection of an ω-ε-ζ toxin–antitoxin module and an ABC transporter

(2008) H. Sletvold et al.   PLASMID