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The prevalence, genotype for antibiotic resistance and antibiotic susceptibility of vancomycin resistant enterococci (VRE) were determined. And molecular typings of theEnterococcus faecium isolates were analyzed. Prevalence of VRE in chickens, healthy children and intensive care unit (ICU) patients was 41.6%, 7.9%, and 20.4%, respectively. Forty out of 54 isolates from chicken intestines, and 9 out of 11 from ICU patients were identified asEnterococcus faecium. Eleven out of 13 isolates from non-hospitalized young children wereE gallinarium. Twelve strains ofE faecalis were isolated from chicken intestines. The gene for the antibiotic resistance inE. faecium, andE. faecalis wasvanA, while that inE. gallinarium was vanC1. E. faecium isolates were resistant to most of antibiotics except ampicillin and gentamicin. Molecular typing of theE. faecium strains obtained by pulse field gel electrophoresis and repetitive sequence-based PCR suggest that VRE transmit horizontally from poultry to humans, especially young children,via the food chains in Korea.
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Seong, C.N., Shim, E.S., Kim, S.M. et al. Prevalence and characterization of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in chicken intestines and humans of korea. Arch Pharm Res 27, 246–253 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02980113
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