Isolation of VanA-type vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus strains from domestic poultry products with enrichment by incubation in buffered peptone water at 42 degrees C.

Tetsuya Harada, Masashi Kanki, Takao Kawai, Masumi Taguchi, Tsutomu Asao, Yuko Kumeda

Division of Bacteriology, Osaka Prefectural Institute of Public Health, Osaka 537-0025, Japan. harada@iph.pref.osaka.jp

Applied and environmental microbiology 2010 Aug

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Eight VanA-type enterococcal strains were isolated from 8 of 171 domestic poultry products by using enrichment by incubation in buffered peptone water at 35 degrees C and 42 degrees C. The pulsed-field gel electrophoresis patterns of all six VanA-type Enterococcus faecalis isolates were nearly indistinguishable, indicating the presence of a specific clone in Japan.

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Tetsuya Harada, Masashi Kanki, Takao Kawai, Masumi Taguchi, Tsutomu Asao, Yuko Kumeda. Isolation of VanA-type vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus strains from domestic poultry products with enrichment by incubation in buffered peptone water at 42 degrees C. Applied and environmental microbiology. 2010 Aug;76(15):5317-20