Enterococcus
Food MicrobiologyChicken Meat-Associated Enterococci: Influence of Agricultural Antibiotic Use and Connection to the ClinicBacteria that contaminate food can serve as a conduit for moving drug resistance genes from farm to table to clinic. Our results show that chicken meat-associated isolates of Enterococcus are often multidrug resistant, closely related to pathogenic lineages, and harbor worrisome virulence factors. These drug-resistant agricultural isolates could thus represent important stepping stones in the evolution of enterococci into drug-...
Public and Environmental Health Microbiology | SpotlightAgricultural Origins of a Highly Persistent Lineage of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecalis in New ZealandHistorical antimicrobial use in NZ agriculture has driven the evolution of ST108, a VRE lineage carrying a range of clinically relevant antimicrobial resistances. The persistence of this lineage in NZ for over a decade indicates that coselection may be an important stabilizing mechanism for its persistence.
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