Chicken Meat-Associated Enterococci: Influence of Agricultural Antibiotic Use and Connection to the Clinic.

ABSTRACT: Industrial farms are unique, human-created ecosystems that provide the perfect setting for the development and dissemination of antibiotic resistance. Agricultural antibiotic use amplifies naturally occurring resistance mechanisms from soil ecologies, promoting their spread and sharing with other bacteria, including those poised to become endemic within hospital environments. To better understand the role of enterococci in the movement of antibiotic resistance from farm to table to clinic, we characterized over 300 isolates of Enterococcus cultured from raw chicken meat purchased at U.S. supermarkets by the Consumers Union in 2013. Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium were the predominant species found, and antimicrobial susceptibility testing uncovered strik

SUBMITTER: Manson AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6821970 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature