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ABADIA-PATINO, Lorena. Susceptibility profile of Enterococcus spp. strains isolated from animals destined for human consumption, raised at Monagas and Anzoátegui States. Rev. Soc. Ven. Microbiol. [online]. 2013, vol.33, n.2, pp.100-104. ISSN 1315-2556.

Enterococcus spp. is a genus intrinsically resistant to several antimicrobial families clinically used in humans. Due to their difficult treatment when they produce serious infections and their easy dissemination through the food chain, the susceptibility profile of Enterococcus spp. strains isolated from animals destined for human consumption raised at Monagas and Anzoátegui States was determined. Samples were collected in a intentionally non-probabilistic form during the year 2009. The susceptibility profile was done using the disk diffusion test for glycopeptides, high charge aminoglycosides, erythromycin, chloramphenicol, cyprofloxacin, rifampicin and ampicillin. Since vancomycin is one the antimicrobials most used in human medicine, the high resistance level to glycopeptides was determined for all strains. Most of the isolates were mobile enterococci (vanC). The most resistant antimicrobials were aminoglycosides and macrolids. The detection of bacterial strains resistant to antimicrobials clinically used in humans in animals destined for human consumption could be translated into an a food transmission of these type of strains in extra-hospital environments, leading to originate, under appropriate circumstances, serious infections in man, since they are opportunistic pathogens.

Palavras-chave : Enterococcus spp; antimicrobial resistance; animals; antibiotics.

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