Arcari Gabriele, De Francesco Alice, Polani Riccardo, Carattoli Alessandra, Capitani Valerio
Department of Medicine and Technological Innovation, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy.
Ospedale di Circolo e Fondazione Macchi, Laboratory of Medical Microbiology and Virology, Varese, Italy.
Front Microbiol. 2024 Oct 31;15:1493621. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1493621. eCollection 2024.
The genus is assuming greater clinical relevance among infections caused by also because of its intrinsic and acquired resistance to last-resort antibiotics. However, despite having been known and studied for over 50 years, genomics and taxonomy of the genus are currently undergoing a deep rearrangement. In this study we aim to outline and characterized the species.
We retrieved from the GenBank database all genomes labelled as and performed a comprehensive genome-based species definition founded on average nucleotide identity (ANI) and on alignment-free approaches.
After defining the genomes assuredly identifiable as , we devised a MultiLocus Sequence Typing (MLST) and a core-genome MLST (cgMLST) schemes, based on 7 and 2,296 loci respectively.
This work hence provides a framework for understanding the role of and of other members of this genus, which should be considered as emerging multidrug-resistant pathogens.
该属在由其引起的感染中具有越来越大的临床相关性,这也归因于其对最后手段抗生素的固有和获得性耐药性。然而,尽管该属已被认识和研究了50多年,但其基因组学和分类学目前正在经历深刻的重新排列。在本研究中,我们旨在概述并表征该属物种。
我们从GenBank数据库中检索了所有标记为该属的基因组,并基于平均核苷酸同一性(ANI)和无比对方法进行了全面的基于基因组的物种定义。
在确定了肯定可鉴定为该属的基因组后,我们分别基于7个和2296个基因座设计了多位点序列分型(MLST)和核心基因组MLST(cgMLST)方案。
因此,这项工作为理解该属及其其他成员的作用提供了一个框架,这些成员应被视为新兴的多重耐药病原体。