Table 2.

Antibiotic resistance gene profile of Enterococcus spp. isolated from bovine feces. Values represent % pairwise identity

Resistance gene	aph(3′)-III	aac(6′)-Ii	aac(6′)-Iid	aac(6′)-Iih	ant(9) -Ia	adeC	erm(B)	msrC	lsa(A) a	lsa(E)	lnu(B)	tet(L)	tet(M)	tet(O)	sat4	vanC operon b
Strain
E. hirae 1				99.5			100					100	96.5
E. hirae 2				99.5			100
E. hirae 3				100			100							93.0
E. hirae 4				98.9			100							100
E. hirae 5				100			99.5							91.4
E. hirae 6				100
E. hirae 7				99.5
E. hirae 8				100
E. hirae 9				98.9										96.9
E. hirae 10				100										92.8
E. faecium 11	100	100			100	99.9	100	98.9		98.9	99.9	100	95.1		99.0
E. faecium 12		100				92.9		95.4
E. faecium 13		99.8				99.8		99.3
E. thailandicus 14
E. villorum 15
E. villorum 16							99.6					100
E. faecalis 17									99.5
E. gallinarum 18							98.6									present
E. durans 19			100
E. casseliflavus 20																present
E. casseliflavus 21							98.6									present

^aIntrinsic to E. faecalis

^b vanC operon consists of vanC, vanR-C, vanS-C, vanXY-C and is intrinsic to E.gallinarum and E. casseliflavus; GenBank accession numbers for resistance genes: aph(3′)-III (M26832.1), aac(6′)-Ii (L12710.1), aac(6′)-Iid (AJ584701.2), aac(6′)-Iih (AJ584700.2), ant(9)-Ia (JQ861959.1), adeC (CP003583.1), erm(B) (U86375.1), msrC (AY004350.1), lsa(A) (AY225127.1), lsa(E) (JX560992.1), lnu(B) (AJ238249.1), tet(L) (M29725.1), tet(M) (EU182585.1), tet(O) (Y07780.1), tet(32) (AJ295238.3), sat4 (U01945.1), vanC operon E. gallinarum (AF162694.1), vanC operon E. casseliflavus (EU151753.1)