title: Detection of CC17 Enterococcus faecium in dogs and a comparison with human isolates.
abstract: Enterococcus faecium strains of clonal complex (CC) 17 were isolated from domestic dogs. The strains were more prevalent in infectious isolates than in colonized isolates, suggesting that strains of the CC17 lineage may have an advantage in causing infections in dogs. The pulsed field gel electrophoresis patterns of some dog and human isolates were over 90% similar. However, antimicrobial resistance patterns and virulence factors were not identical, which might reflect different use of antimicrobials in veterinary medicine or in host specificity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Brain Korea 21 Program for Veterinary Science, College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Kwon
authors.forename: B Y
authors.initials: BY
authors.lastname: Moon
authors.forename: S Y
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Hwang
authors.forename: Y H
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Park
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D004285:Dogs; D024881:Drug Resistance, Bacterial; D016521:Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field; D016984:Enterococcus faecium / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D016908:Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000662:veterinary; D058507:Host Specificity; D006801:Humans; D058885:Multilocus Sequence Typing; D010641:Phenotype; D056910:Republic of Korea / Q000453:epidemiology; D037521:Virulence Factors / Q000235:genetics*; D015047:Zoonoses
chemical_list: D037521:Virulence Factors