Horizontal gene transfer of a cfiA element between two different Bacteroides species within a clinical specimen

Affiliations

• ¹ University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Prevention, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands. Electronic address: a.c.m.veloo@umcg.nl.
• ² University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Prevention, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
• ³ Centre for Infectious Disease Control (CIb), National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands.
• ⁴ Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Center for Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, the Netherlands.
• ⁵ University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Prevention, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands; Laboratory of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases & Isala Academie, Isala Hospital, Zwolle, the Netherlands; Department of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.