Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Use of Antimicrobial Growth Promoters in Food Animals and Enterococcus faecium Resistance to Therapeutic Antimicrobial Drugs in Europe

Henrik C. Wegener

, Frank M. Aarestrup, Lars Bogø Jensen, Anette M. Hammerum, and Flemming Bager

Author affiliations: Danish Veterinary Laboratory, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Trend in the proportion of Enterococcus faecium isolates resistant to vancomycin (VRE) during successive half-year periods from second half of 1995 to first half of 1998 (39).

Figure. Trend in the proportion of Enterococcus faecium isolates resistant to vancomycin (VRE) during successive half-year periods from second half of 1995 to first half of 1998 (39).

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