Volume 5, Number 3—June 1999
Perspective
Use of Antimicrobial Growth Promoters in Food Animals and Enterococcus faecium Resistance to Therapeutic Antimicrobial Drugs in Europe
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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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