Complete Genome Sequences of Isolates of Enterococcus faecium Sequence Type 117, a Globally Disseminated Multidrug-Resistant Clone

Ana P Tedim; Val F Lanza; Marina Manrique; Eduardo Pareja; Patricia Ruiz-Garbajosa; Rafael Cantón; Fernando Baquero; Teresa M Coque; Raquel Tobes

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01553-16

Complete Genome Sequences of Isolates of Enterococcus faecium Sequence Type 117, a Globally Disseminated Multidrug-Resistant Clone

Genome Announc. 2017 Mar 30;5(13):e01553-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01553-16.

Authors

Ana P Tedim^{1

2}, Val F Lanza^{1

2}, Marina Manrique³, Eduardo Pareja³, Patricia Ruiz-Garbajosa^{1

4}, Rafael Cantón^{1

4}, Fernando Baquero^{1

2}, Teresa M Coque^{5

2}, Raquel Tobes³

Affiliations

¹ Microbiology Department, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria (IRYCIS), Madrid, Spain.
² Centros de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBER-ESP), Madrid, Spain.
³ ERA7 Bioinformatics, Madrid, Spain.
⁴ Red Española de Investigación de Patologías infecciosas (REIPI), Madrid, Spain.
⁵ Microbiology Department, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria (IRYCIS), Madrid, Spain [email protected].

Abstract

The emergence of nosocomial infections by multidrug-resistant sequence type 117 (ST117) Enterococcus faecium has been reported in several European countries. ST117 has been detected in Spanish hospitals as one of the main causes of bloodstream infections. We analyzed genome variations of ST117 strains isolated in Madrid and describe the first ST117 closed genome sequences.