Nature Communications (May 2017)

Evolutionary dynamics and genomic features of the Elizabethkingia anophelis 2015 to 2016 Wisconsin outbreak strain

  • Amandine Perrin,
  • Elise Larsonneur,
  • Ainsley C. Nicholson,
  • David J. Edwards,
  • Kristin M. Gundlach,
  • Anne M. Whitney,
  • Christopher A. Gulvik,
  • Melissa E. Bell,
  • Olaya Rendueles,
  • Jean Cury,
  • Perrine Hugon,
  • Dominique Clermont,
  • Vincent Enouf,
  • Vladimir Loparev,
  • Phalasy Juieng,
  • Timothy Monson,
  • David Warshauer,
  • Lina I. Elbadawi,
  • Maroya Spalding Walters,
  • Matthew B. Crist,
  • Judith Noble-Wang,
  • Gwen Borlaug,
  • Eduardo P. C. Rocha,
  • Alexis Criscuolo,
  • Marie Touchon,
  • Jeffrey P. Davis,
  • Kathryn E. Holt,
  • John R. McQuiston,
  • Sylvain Brisse

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15483
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Elizabethkingia anophelis is an emerging pathogen of high antimicrobial resistance. Perrin and colleagues sequenced isolates of a 2015/2016 E. anophelis outbreak in Wisconsin and found substantial genetic diversity, accelerated evolutionary rate and a disruptive mutation in the DNA repair gene mutY.