Nguyen Thi Khanh Nhu, Minh-Duy Phan, Steven J Hancock, Kate M Peters, Laura Alvarez-Fraga, Brian M Forde, Stacey B Andersen, Thyl Miliya, Patrick N A Harris, Scott A Beatson, Sanmarie Schlebusch, Haakon Bergh, Paul Turner, Annelie Brauner, Benita Westerlund-Wikström, Adam D Irwin, Mark A Schembri
Neonatal meningitis is a devastating disease associated with high mortality and neurological sequelae. Escherichia coli is the second most common cause of neonatal meningitis in full-term infants (herein NMEC) and the most common cause of meningitis in preterm neonates. Here, we investigated the genomic relatedness of a collection of 58 NMEC isolates spanning 1974-2020 and isolated from seven different geographic regions. We show NMEC are comprised of diverse sequence types (STs), with ST95 (34.5%) and ST1193 (15...
April 16, 2024: ELife