TY - JOUR AU - Freitas, Ana AU - Finisterra, Liliana AU - Tedim, Ana AU - Duarte, Bárbara AU - Novais, Carla AU - Peixe, Luísa T1 - Linezolid- and Multidrug-Resistant Enterococci in Raw Commercial Dog Food, Europe, 2019–2020 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2021 VL - 27 IS - 8 SP - 2221 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We describe enterococci in raw-frozen dog food commercialized in Europe as a source of genes encoding resistance to the antibiotic drug linezolid and of strains and plasmids enriched in antibiotic-resistance and virulence genes in hospitalized patients. Whole-genome sequencing was fundamental to linking isolates from dog food to human cases across Europe. KW - raw dog food KW - multidrug resistance KW - enterococci KW - linezolid resistance KW - optrA KW - poxtA KW - cfrD KW - ampicillin resistance KW - cgMLST KW - bacteria KW - Portugal KW - Spain KW - Europe DO - 10.3201/eid2708.204933 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/8/20-4933_article ER - End of Reference