Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus spp. isolated from wastewater and chicken feces in the United States

Authors :: Harwood, Valerie J.
Brownell, Miriam
Perusek, William
Whitlock, John E.
Source :: Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Oct, 2001, Vol. 67 Issue 10, p4930, 4 p.
Publication Year :: 2001
Abstract: Researchers isolated vancomycin-resistant strains of Enterococcus spp. from residential and hospital wastewater, sewage and chicken feces, but not from surface water or other animal feces. Vancomycin resistance was associated with the vanA and vanC genes.

Subjects :: Drug resistance in microorganisms -- Research
Enterococcus
Sewage -- Microbiology
Biological sciences

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