Vancomycin resistant enterococci (VRE) are important pathogens in hospitalized patients, however, the factors involved in VRE colonization of hospitalized patients are not well characterized. Bacteriocins provide a competitive advantage to enterococci in experimental models of colonization, but little is known about bacteriocin content in samples derived from humans and even less is known about their dynamics in the clinical setting. To identify bacteriocins which may be relevant in the transmission of VRE, we present a systematic analysis of bacteriocin content in the genomes of 2,428 patient derived
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