Recent Recombination Events in the Core Genome Are Associated with Adaptive Evolution in Enterococcus faecium

Genomic transition of enterococci from gut commensals to leading causes of multidrug-resistant hospital infection in the antibiotic era

(2013) Michael S Gilmore et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

The Evolutionary Path to Extraintestinal Pathogenic, Drug-Resistant Escherichia coli Is Marked by Drastic Reduction in Detectable Recombination within the Core Genome

(2013) Alan McNally et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Identification of a Genetic Determinant in Clinical Enterococcus faecium Strains That Contributes to Intestinal Colonization During Antibiotic Treatment

(2013) X. Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Complete genome sequence of Enterococcus faecium strain TX16 and comparative genomic analysis of Enterococcus faecium genomes

(2012) Xiang Qin et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Comparative Analysis of the First Complete Enterococcus faecium Genome

(2012) M. M. C. Lam et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Multilocus Sequence Typing of Total-Genome-Sequenced Bacteria

(2012) M. V. Larsen et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Pneumococcal genome sequencing tracks a vaccine escape variant formed through a multi-fragment recombination event

(2012) Tanya Golubchik et al.   NATURE GENETICS

The rise of the Enterococcus: beyond vancomycin resistance

(2012) Cesar A. Arias et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Genomic and SNP Analyses Demonstrate a Distant Separation of the Hospital and Community-Associated Clades of Enterococcus faecium

(2012) Jessica Galloway-Peña et al.   PLoS One

Restricted Gene Flow among Hospital Subpopulations of Enterococcus faecium

(2012) R. J. L. Willems et al.   mBio

Genome-Wide Identification of Ampicillin Resistance Determinants in Enterococcus faecium

(2012) Xinglin Zhang et al.   PLoS Genetics

Phylogeographic variation in recombination rates within a global clone of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

(2012) Santiago Castillo-Ramírez et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

SMART 7: recent updates to the protein domain annotation resource

(2011) I. Letunic et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Detection of recombination events in bacterial genomes from large population samples

(2011) Pekka Marttinen et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Rapid Pneumococcal Evolution in Response to Clinical Interventions

(2011) N. J. Croucher et al.   SCIENCE

An Ergatis-based prokaryotic genome annotation web server

(2010) Chris Hemmerich et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Pyrosequencing-based comparative genome analysis of the nosocomial pathogen Enterococcus faecium and identification of a large transferable pathogenicity island

(2010) Willem van Schaik et al.   BMC GENOMICS

trimAl: a tool for automated alignment trimming in large-scale phylogenetic analyses

(2009) S. Capella-Gutierrez et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Transition ofEnterococcus faeciumfrom commensal organism to nosocomial pathogen

(2009) Rob JL Willems et al.   Future Microbiology

Further Characterization of the epa Gene Cluster and Epa Polysaccharides of Enterococcus faecalis

(2009) F. Teng et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

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

The Pfam protein families database

(2009) Robert D. Finn et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Bayesian modeling of recombination events in bacterial populations

(2008) Pekka Marttinen et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Velvet: Algorithms for de novo short read assembly using de Bruijn graphs

(2008) D. R. Zerbino et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Antimicrobial-Resistant Pathogens Associated With Healthcare-Associated Infections: Annual Summary of Data Reported to the National Healthcare Safety Network at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2006–2007

(2008) Alicia I. Hidron et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY