Detection of phenicol-oxazolidinone resistance gene optrA in Aerococcus viridans from bovine faeces, Italy

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Sir, Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) are now ubiquitous in non-clinical environments. Specifically, livestock farms are considered major reservoirs of ARGs and pose a risk for human health, since ARGs can be spread to human bacterial pathogens. Although many antimicrobials administered to animals are used exclusively in veterinary applications, most of them can drive the co-selection of genes encoding...

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