Enterococcus avium

Enterococcus avium
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Bacillati
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Bacilli
Order:	Lactobacillales
Family:	Enterococcaceae
Genus:	Enterococcus
Species:	E. avium
Binomial name
	Enterococcus avium; (ex Nowlan and Deibel 1967) Collins et al. 1984

Enterococcus avium, a species of Enterococcus,¹ is most commonly found in birds. Rarely, it is also a cause of infection in humans, and in such cases, may be vancomycin-resistant, and is referred to as VREA.² VREA cases in humans have been successfully treated with linezolid.³

References

Mohanty S, Dhawan B, Kapil A, Das BK, Pandey P, Gupta A (March 2005). "Brain abscess due to Enterococcus avium". Am. J. Med. Sci. 329 (3): 161–2. doi:10.1097/00000441-200503000-00011. PMID 15767825.
Enterococcus avium Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine at steadyhealth.com. Accessed July 18, 2010.
Lee, Prescott P. MD; Donald A. Ferguson, Jr.; John J. Laffan. Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus avium. Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice: July 2004 12:4, pp. 239-244. Accessed July 17, 2010.

External links

Type strain of Enterococcus avium at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

[pmid15767825-1] Mohanty S, Dhawan B, Kapil A, Das BK, Pandey P, Gupta A (March 2005). "Brain abscess due to Enterococcus avium". Am. J. Med. Sci. 329 (3): 161–2. doi:10.1097/00000441-200503000-00011. PMID 15767825.

[2] Enterococcus avium Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine at steadyhealth.com. Accessed July 18, 2010.

[3] Lee, Prescott P. MD; Donald A. Ferguson, Jr.; John J. Laffan. Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus avium. Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice: July 2004 12:4, pp. 239-244. Accessed July 17, 2010.

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