Genomic, Antimicrobial Resistance, and Public Health Insights into Enterococcus spp. from Australian Chickens.

ABSTRACT: Due to Australia's management of antimicrobial use in poultry, particularly the discontinued use of avoparcin for nearly 20 years, it is hypothesized that vancomycin-resistant enterococci associated with human disease are not derived from poultry isolates. This study evaluated antimicrobial resistance (AMR) of five enterococcal species isolated from Australian meat chickens, genomic features of Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis, and the phylogenetic relationship of the poultry-derived E. faecium with isolates from human sepsis cases. All enterococcal isolates from chicken ceca were subjected to antimicrobial susceptibility testing. E. faecium and E. faecalis underwent whole-genome sequencing. E. faecium was compared at the core genome

SUBMITTER: O'Dea M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6663891 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature