Genomic Characterization of 2 Cutibacterium acnes Isolates from a Surgical Site Infection Reveals Large Genomic Inversion

• Main Authors: D. Garrett Brown (Author), Taylor A. Wahlig (Author), Angela Ma (Author), Laura K. Certain (Author), Peter N. Chalmers (Author), Mark A. Fisher (Author), Daniel T Leung (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Case Western Reserve University, 2023-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Cutibacterium acnes is a common commensal of human skin but may also present as an opportunistic pathogen in prosthetic joint and wound infections. Unfortunately, few complete genomes of C. acnes are publicly available, and even fewer are of isolates associated with infection. Here we re...