List of works by Kristin Hegstad

A multicentre hospital outbreak in Sweden caused by introduction of a vanB2 transposon into a stably maintained pRUM-plasmid in an Enterococcus faecium ST192 clone

scientific article

Antibiotic resistant enterococci-tales of a drug resistance gene trafficker

scientific article published on 08 March 2013

Cluster of linezolid-resistant Enterococcus faecium ST117 in Norwegian hospitals

scientific article published on 19 August 2014

Clustering of polyclonal VanB-type vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a low-endemic area was associated with CC17-genogroup strains harbouring transferable vanB2-Tn5382 and pRUM-like repA containing plasmids with axe-txe plasmid addiction

scientific article published on 25 February 2011

Does the wide use of quaternary ammonium compounds enhance the selection and spread of antimicrobial resistance and thus threaten our health?

scientific article published on June 2010

Enterococcus faecium produces membrane vesicles containing virulence factors and antimicrobial resistance related proteins

scientific article published on 30 May 2018

Erratum to: Investigating the mobilome in clinically important lineages of Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis

scientific article published on 15 September 2015

ICESluvan, a 94-kilobase mosaic integrative conjugative element conferring interspecies transfer of VanB-type glycopeptide resistance, a novel bacitracin resistance locus, and a toxin-antitoxin stabilization system.

scientific article published on 27 September 2013

Increased high-level gentamicin resistance in invasive Enterococcus faecium is associated with aac(6')Ie-aph(2″)Ia-encoding transferable megaplasmids hosted by major hospital-adapted lineages.

scientific article published on 27 June 2012

Investigating the mobilome in clinically important lineages of Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis

scientific article published on 10 April 2015

Mobile genetic elements and their contribution to the emergence of antimicrobial resistant Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium.

scientific article published on June 2010

Molecular characterization of CTX-M-15-producing clinical isolates of Escherichia coli reveals the spread of multidrug-resistant ST131 (O25:H4) and ST964 (O102:H6) strains in Norway

scientific article published on 01 July 2009

Multilevel population genetic analysis of vanA and vanB Enterococcus faecium causing nosocomial outbreaks in 27 countries (1986-2012).

scientific article published on 15 August 2016

Performance of the EUCAST disk diffusion method, the CLSI agar screen method, and the Vitek 2 automated antimicrobial susceptibility testing system for detection of clinical isolates of Enterococci with low- and medium-level VanB-type vancomycin res

scientific article

Recommendations To Address the Difficulties Encountered When Determining Linezolid Resistance from Whole-Genome Sequencing Data

scholarly article by Alicia G Beukers et al published August 2018 in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Role of Horizontal Gene Transfer in the Development of Multidrug Resistance in Haemophilus influenzae

scientific article published on 29 January 2020

Species identification and molecular characterization of Acinetobacter spp. blood culture isolates from Norway.

scientific article published on 19 January 2011

Structural basis for PoxtA-mediated resistance to phenicol and oxazolidinone antibiotics

scientific article published on 6 April 2022

TIR-Domain Genes Are Part of a Gene Cluster Which Promotes Bacterial Survival in Blood

article

The Enterococcus Cassette Chromosome, a Genomic Variation Enabler in Enterococci

scientific article published on 07 November 2018

The fight to keep resistance at bay, epidemiology of carbapenemase producing organisms (CPOs), vancomycin resistant enterococci (VRE) and methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Norway, 2006 - 2017

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Transcriptome Profiling of <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> Associated Extracellular Vesicles Reveals Presence of Small RNA-Cargo

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Update on prevalence and mechanisms of resistance to linezolid, tigecycline and daptomycin in enterococci in Europe: Towards a common nomenclature

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

ccrABEnt serine recombinase genes are widely distributed in the Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus casseliflavus species groups and are expressed in E. faecium ⬇️

scientific article

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