Complete Genome Sequences of Two Avilamycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium Strains Isolated from Chicken in the United States

S Zhao; C Li; S Mukherjee; C H Hsu; R Singh; J Gilbert; P McDermott

doi:10.1128/MRA.00957-19

Complete Genome Sequences of Two Avilamycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium Strains Isolated from Chicken in the United States

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Nov 21;8(47):e00957-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00957-19.

Authors

S Zhao¹, C Li², S Mukherjee², C H Hsu², R Singh³, J Gilbert³, P McDermott²

Affiliations

¹ Center for Veterinary Medicine, Office of Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Laurel, Maryland, USA shaohua.zhao@fda.hhs.gov.
² Center for Veterinary Medicine, Office of Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Laurel, Maryland, USA.
³ Center for Veterinary Medicine, Office of New Drug Animal Evaluation, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, Maryland, USA.

Abstract

Avilamycin-resistant Enterococcus spp. have never been reported in the United States. Here, we report the complete genome sequences of two avilamycin-resistant (Avi^r) Enterococcus faecium strains isolated from a retail chicken and a cecal sample from a young chicken. Both isolates are multidrug resistant (MDR) and carry emtA on MDR plasmids.