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SUBMITTER: Simjee S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC132745 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Simjee S S White D G DG Wagner D D DD Meng J J Qaiyumi S S Zhao S S McDermott P F PF
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20021201 12
Sixteen isolates of Enterococcus faecalis were recovered from retail poultry samples (seven chickens and nine turkeys) purchased from grocery stores in the greater Washington, D.C., area. PCR for known streptogramin resistance genes identified vat(E) in five E. faecalis isolates (three isolates from chickens and two isolates from turkeys). The vat(E) gene was transmissible on a ca. 70-kb plasmid, along with resistance to erythromycin, tetracycline, and streptomycin, by conjugation to E. faecalis ...[more]