| antimicrobial resistance in enterococcus strains isolated from healthy domestic dogs. | enterococci are opportunistic bacteria that cause severe infections in animals and humans, capable to acquire, express, and transfer antimicrobial resistance. susceptibility to 21 antimicrobial agents was tested by the disk diffusion method in 222 enterococcus spp. strains isolated from the fecal samples of 287 healthy domestic dogs. vancomycin and ampicillin minimum inhibitory concentrations (mics) and high-level aminoglycoside resistance (hlar) tests were also performed. isolates showed resist ... | 2016 | 27976593 |
| detection of cc17 enterococcus faecium in dogs and a comparison with human isolates. | enterococcus faecium strains of clonal complex (cc) 17 were isolated from domestic dogs. the strains were more prevalent in infectious isolates than in colonized isolates, suggesting that strains of the cc17 lineage may have an advantage in causing infections in dogs. the pulsed field gel electrophoresis patterns of some dog and human isolates were over 90% similar. however, antimicrobial resistance patterns and virulence factors were not identical, which might reflect different use of antimicro ... | 2012 | 22372965 |