International Spread of Multidrug-Resistant Rhodococcus equi

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R hodococcus equi is a soilborne aerobic actinomy- cete bacterium that infects animals and humans. Human infections are opportunistic, zoonotic in origin, and considered to be linked to exposure to farm environments (1-3). Although clinical R. equi infections are relatively rare in most animal species, foals are commonly affected, and incidence is often high in horse farms in equine breeding countries (4). Long...

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