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Prevalence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREF) in pig faeces from slaughterhouses in Spain |
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| Authors: | Herrero I A Teshager T Garde J Moreno M A Domínguez L |
| Institution: | a Red de Vigilancia Veterinaria de Resistencias a Antibióticos (VAV), Departamento de Patología Animal I (Sanidad Animal), Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain b Subdirección General de Medios de Producción Ganaderos y Vías Pecuarias, Dirección General de Ganadería, Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación, Madrid, Spain |
| Abstract: | A study to estimate the prevalence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in faecal samples from pigs at slaughterhouses in Spain was carried out between November 1998 and January 1999 with 900 samples taken from four abattoirs representing 9.7% of all pig slaughtered in 1998. Using a selective enrichment broth with vancomycin (8 μg/ml), 64 samples (7.1%; 95% CI: 5.5, 9.0%) had E. faecium vancomycin-resistant strains that showed minimal inhibitory concentrations of 256 μg/ml (62 strains) and 512 μg/ml (two strains). Results by farm showed that 43 of the 240 pig farms represented in the sampling had at least one faecal sample with vancomycin-resistant E. faecium. |
| Keywords: | Enterococcus faecium Vancomycin-resistance Healthy pigs Spain |
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