%0 Journal Article %A Mahony, Andrew A. %A Buultjens, Andrew H. %A Ballard, Susan A. %A Grabsch, Elizabeth A. %A Xie, Shirley %A SEEMANN, TORSTEN %A Stuart, Rhonda L. %A Kotsanas, Despina %A Cheng, Allen %A Heffernan, Helen %A Roberts, Sally A. %A Coombs, Geoffrey W. %A Bak, Narin %A Ferguson, John K. %A CARTER, GLEN %A Howden, Benjamin P. %A Stinear, Timothy P. %A Johnson, Paul D. R. %D 2019 %T Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium sequence type 796-rapid international dissemination of a new epidemic clone %U https://research.esr.cri.nz/articles/journal_contribution/Vancomycin-resistant_Enterococcus_faecium_sequence_type_796-rapid_international_dissemination_of_a_new_epidemic_clone/8067008 %R 10.26091/ESRNZ.8067008.v1 %2 https://research.esr.cri.nz/ndownloader/files/15033359 %K VRE %K Whole Genome Sequencing %K Molecular Epidemiology %K Outbreak %K infection Control %K Enterococcus faecium %K Australia %K New Zealand %K ST796 %K vanB E. faecium %K Sequence Type 796 %K Vancomycin-resistance %K Epidemic Clone %K Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus %K Microbiology %K Microbial Genetics %X Background: Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) is a leading cause of hospital-acquired infections. New, presumably better-adapted strains of VRE appear unpredictably; it is uncertain how they spread despite improved infection control. We aimed to investigate the relatedness of a novel sequence type (ST) of vanB E. faecium - ST796 - very near its time of origin from hospitals in three Australian states and New Zealand.