Freitas Ana R, Novais Carla, Ruiz-Garbajosa Patricia, Coque Teresa M, Peixe Luísa
REQUIMTE, Laboratório de Microbiologia, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Appl Environ Microbiol. 2009 Jul;75(14):4904-8. doi: 10.1128/AEM.02945-08. Epub 2009 May 15.
The population structure of 56 Enterococcus faecium isolates selected from a collection of enterococci from humans, animals, and the environment in Portugal (1997 to 2007) was analyzed by multilocus sequence typing. We identified 41 sequence types clustering into CC17, CC5, CC9, CC22 and CC94, all clonal lineages comprising isolates from different hosts. Our findings highlight the role of community-associated hosts as reservoirs of enterococci able to cause human infections.
通过多位点序列分型分析了从葡萄牙人类、动物和环境来源的肠球菌集合中选取的56株屎肠球菌分离株的群体结构。我们鉴定出41种序列类型，它们聚集成CC17、CC5、CC9、CC22和CC94，所有这些克隆谱系都包含来自不同宿主的分离株。我们的研究结果突出了社区相关宿主作为能够引起人类感染的肠球菌储存库的作用。
