Investigating the mobilome in clinically important lineages of Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis

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Table 1 Clinical enterococcal strains used for hybridization

No	ST/CC	Name	Source	Country	Year	Reference
E. faecium
1	17/17	U0229	Blood	NLD	1995	[37]
2	17/17	TUH2-18	Urine	NOR	1996	[38,39]
3	17/17	U0218	Blood	NLD	1997	[37]
4	17/17	E1463	Blood	ESP	1998	[40]
5	17/17	O2T878	Blood	SWE	2002	[41]
6	17/17	NIZP292/02	Wound	POL	2002	[42]
7	17/17	U0106	Blood	NLD	2004	[37]
8	17/17	VRE-10	Blood	DEN	2005	[43]
9	17/17	UW6900	Blood	GER	2006	[44,45]
10	17/17	VRE-84	VA	DEN	2008	[43]
11	78/17	E1644	Urine	GER	2002	[46]
12	78/17	U0262	Blood	NLD	2004	[37]
13	78/17	U0367	Blood	NLD	2004	[37]
14	78/17	E2603	Blood	NLD	2005	[37]
15	78/17	E4076	Blood	NLD	2006	[37]
16	78/17	UW6847	Blood	GER	2006	[45]
17	78/17	UW6880	Blood	GER	2006	[45,47]
18	78/17	HPH3	Urine	PRT	2007	[47]
19	78/17	VRE-106	Urine	DEN	2008	[43]
20	78/17	VRE0673	Feces	SWE	2008	[48]
E. faecalis
21	6/2	229710	Urine	PRT	1992	[49]
22	6/2	2724	Blood	ITA	1993	[50]
23	6/2	217691	Blood	PRT	1996	[50,51]
24	6/2	E1828	Blood	ESP	2001	[52]
25	6/2	E3450	Blood	NLD	2006	[13]
26	6/2	UW7001	Blood	GER	2006	[13]
27	6/2	340/07	Blood	POL	2007	[13]
28	6/2	1665/07	Blood	DEN	2007	[13]
29	6/2	VRE-115	Blood	DEN	2008	[43]
30	6/2	3962/09	Blood	NLD	2009	[13]
31	40/40	435/96	Urine	POL	1996	[53,54]
32	40/40	UW1833	Urine	GER	1998	This study, [53,54]
33	40/40	7239/99	Urine	POL	1999	[53-55]
34	40/40	HC24	Blood	ESP	2001	[52-54]
35	40/40	457/04	Urine	POL	2004	[53-55]
36	40/40	UW5744	Urine	GER	2004	This study, [53,54]
37	40/40	UW6756	Urine	GER	2006	This study, [53,54]
38	40/40	UW7790	Feces	POL	2007	[53-55]
39	40/40	1638/07	Urine	DEN	2007	[13]
40	40/40	3992/09	Urine	NLD	2009	[13]
Control	6/2	V583	Blood	USA	1981	[36,56]

VA, ventricle aspirate; PF, peritoneal fluid; DEN, Denmark; ESP, Spain; GER, Germany; ITA, Italy; NDL, The Netherlands; NOR, Norway; POL, Poland; SWE, Sweden; USA, The United States of America.

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