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Persistence of vanA-type Enterococcus faecium in Korean livestock after ban on avoparcin.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) - 1 Jan 2006
Lim Suk-Kyung, Kim Tae-Soon, Lee Hee-Soo, Nam Hyang-Mi, Joo Yi-Seok, Koh Hong-Bum
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Prevalence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) was investigated in Korean livestock 4 years after the ban of avoparcin in feed additives. VRE were isolated from approximately 16.7% of the chicken samples (57 strains from 342 meat samples) and 1.9% of the pig samples (4 from 214 fecal samples). No VRE, however, was isolated from 110 bovine fecal samples. All the 61 VRE isolates were vanA-type Enterococcus...
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