TABLE 1.
Screening for VRE
| Source (sample) | No. of isolates screened | Vancomycin concn (μg/ml) | No. of colonies on vancomycin-amended media | No. of isolates:
|
Identified organism(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Preliminarly identified as Enterococcus | Identified as PYR+ and LAP+ | |||||
| Dog | 481 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 0 | Weissella, Leuconostoc |
| Cow | 474 | 10 | 0 | NAa | NA | NA |
| Chicken | 470 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 2 | E. gallinarum |
| Pig | 362 | 10 | 9 | 0 | NA | NA |
| Residential wastewater (LF1) | 96 | 10 | 0 | NA | NA | NA |
| Residential wastewater (LF2) | 10,000 | 10 | 36 | 0 | NA | NA |
| Residential wastewater (TP) | 10,000 | 3 | 20 | 14 | 14 | E. gallinarum |
| Residential wastewater (LF3) | 10,000 | 3 | 192 | 2 | 2 | E. gallinarum |
| Hospital wastewater (1) | 96 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 6 | E. avium |
| Hospital wastewater (2) | 96 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 5 | E. faecium |
| Surface water | 2,112 | 10 | 7 | 0 | NA | Weissella, Leuconostoc |
a
NA, not applicable.