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Probiotic Enterococcus faecium strain is a possible recipient of the vanA gene cluster

Clinical Infectious Diseases (2001) 32(9) 1384-1385
DOI: 10.1086/319994
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The characteristics of Enterococcus faecium have led to concern regarding the safety of probiotics that contain this bacterium. The results of an in vitro filter mating assay indicate that a probiotic E. faecium strain might be a potential recipient of vancomycin resistance genes.

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Lund, B., & Edlund, C. (2001). Probiotic Enterococcus faecium strain is a possible recipient of the vanA gene cluster. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 32(9), 1384–1385. https://doi.org/10.1086/319994

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