. . . . "Development and validation of ClonalTracker, a tool that assesses for a pair of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) genomes whether they are related through clonal spread or through horizontal transfer, by comparing the van operon, its carrying transposon, and whole-genome similarity. The method was validated on two previously analyzed public VRE datasets and applied to a third dataset of 323 vanB VRE isolates, in which clonal expansion was found to be the dominant dissemination mode. The tool is available at clonaltracker.nl." . . . . "ClonalTracker: development and validation of a method to elucidate dissemination patterns between VRE isolates" . . . . . . . "study" . "observational investigation" . "Victoria Pascal Andreu" . "Tobias Kuhn" . "Anita C. Schürch" . "2026-08-14T06:00:00Z"^^ . . . . . "Study: ClonalTracker: development and validation of a method to elucidate dissemination patterns between VRE isolates" . . . . . . "RSA" . "MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQCwUtewGCpT5vIfXYE1bmf/Uqu1ojqnWdYxv+ySO80ul8Gu7m8KoyPAwuvaPj0lvPtHrg000qMmkxzKhYknEjq8v7EerxZNYp5B3/3+5ZpuWOYAs78UnQVjbHSmDdmryr4D4VvvNIiUmd0yxci47dTFUj4DvfHnGd6hVe5+goqdcwIDAQAB" . "cj21hVqAT3XgKxyBlhaZ3wEJiJmF9XAF2TwITp4PTxA1IK0lH0sCI89tLmwr4i1I/BKk+Xi0jlckltu46zy61gfO4qrgoRP0L34sNgzes1roxpkeTPOs6skqgUQ0GxpCXMQLNPZgmCNEKj/NeiT2SCe7OULA8t3yLC1hP7TjbuY=" . . . "VRE-crossword, horizontal or vertical? Transmission of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in Dutch hospitals" .