TABLE 2.

Isolation of VRE from poultry, swine, and cattle fecal samples in Costa Rica

Source	No. of isolates per samplea				No. of positive samples	No. of VRE isolates
	1	2	3	4
Poultry	32	24	5		61	95
Swine	18	11	7	2	38	69
Cattle	13	4			17	21
Total	63	39	12	2	116	185

^aNumber of distinguishable biochemical patterns for isolates recovered from the same samples.