Occurrence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in pork and poultry products from a cattle-rearing area of France.
Meat products were collected from public retail outlets and tested for the presence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) in an area with a high prevalence of VRE reported in human fecal samples. VRE were detected in 66% of the samples, and a predominance of VanC strains was found, which is also true for human fecal samples.
Gambarotto
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Department of Microbiology and Virology, Limoges University Teaching Hospital, 2 av. Martin Luther King, 87000 Limoges, France.
Ploy
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Dupron
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Giangiobbe
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Denis
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D000822:Animal Husbandry; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D016521:Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field; D016983:Enterococcus / Q000145:classification / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D005602:France; D016908:Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D008460:Meat / Q000382:microbiology*; D008461:Meat Products / Q000382:microbiology*; D011200:Poultry; D013552:Swine; D020713:Vancomycin Resistance / Q000235:genetics*