Decrease of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in poultry meat after avoparcin ban

Lancet. 1999 Aug 28;354(9180):741-2. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(99)02395-8.

Abstract

In Italy, 18 months after the ban of avoparcin, the percentage of poultry meat samples containing vanA gene-positive vancomycin-resistant enterococci fell from 14.6% to 8%.

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / toxicity*
  • Drug Approval / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Drug Resistance, Multiple* / genetics
  • Enterococcus / drug effects*
  • Enterococcus / genetics
  • Enterococcus faecium / drug effects
  • Enterococcus faecium / genetics
  • Food Microbiology*
  • Glycopeptides
  • Humans
  • Italy
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Poultry / microbiology*
  • Vancomycin / pharmacology*

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Glycopeptides
  • Vancomycin
  • avoparcin