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Excretion of vancomycin-resistant enterococci by wild mammals
David J P Mallon1, John E Corkill, Sarah M Hazel
1University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|May 25, 2002
Abstract:
A survey of fecal samples found enterococcal excretion in 82% of 388 bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus), 92% of 131 woodmice (Apodemus sylvaticus), and 75% of 165 badgers (Meles meles). Vancomycin-resistant enterococci, all Enterococcus faecium of vanA genotype, were excreted by 4.6% of the woodmice and 1.2% of the badgers, but by none of the bank voles.