A vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolate from a Danish healthy volunteer, detected 7 years after the ban of avoparcin, is possibly related to pig isolates

J Antimicrob Chemother. 2004 Mar;53(3):547-9. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkh101. Epub 2004 Feb 4.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animal Feed
  • Animals
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents*
  • Denmark
  • Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
  • Enterococcus faecium / drug effects*
  • Enterococcus faecium / genetics
  • Feces / microbiology
  • Glycopeptides*
  • Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / microbiology*
  • Humans
  • Legislation, Drug
  • Swine
  • Vancomycin Resistance*

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Glycopeptides
  • avoparcin