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Occurrence of the vanA and vanC2/C3 genes in Enterococcus species isolated from poultry sources in Malaysia.
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease - 1 Mar 2001
Radu S, Toosa H, Rahim R A, Reezal A, Ahmad M, Hamid A N, Rusul G, Nishibuchi M
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Enterococcus species isolated from poultry sources were characterized for their resistance to antibiotics, plasmid content, presence of van genes and their diversity by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA-polymerase chain reaction (RAPD-PCR). The results showed that all isolates were multi-resistance to the antibiotics tested. Ampicillin (15/70) followed by chloramphenicol (37/70) were the most active antibiotics...
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