Combined Antimicrobial Resistance in Enterococcus faecium Isolated from Chickens
Open Access
- 1 May 2005
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Applied and Environmental Microbiology
- Vol. 71 (5) , 2796-2799
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.71.5.2796-2799.2005
Abstract
Nineteen E. faecium strains isolated from chicken caecum samples, collected in slaughterhouses and highly resistant to vancomycin or gentamicin, were coresistant to erythromycin, and/or tetracyclines, and/or streptogramins, and/or avilamycin. Multiple antibiotic resistance was related to the presence in various combinations of aac(6′)-aph(2"), erm(B), emtA, mef(A), tet(L), tet(M), and vanA genes.Keywords
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