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Species Differentiation of Faecal and Nonfaecal Enterococci
Author(s) -
Moussa R. S.
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
journal of applied bacteriology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.889
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1365-2672
pISSN - 0021-8847
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2672.1965.tb02177.x
Subject(s) - sewage , livestock , biology , feces , streptococcus , veterinary medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , enterococcus faecium , sewage sludge , vegetation (pathology) , enterococcus faecalis , bacteria , ecology , antibiotics , environmental science , medicine , environmental engineering , genetics , pathology , staphylococcus aureus
A number of the cultural and biochemical criteria of the more resistant enterococci were used collectively to speciate 2,477 enterooocci strains isolated from water, soil, vegetation, sewage and human and animal faeces into 2 major groups: Streptococcus faecalis and S. faecium. Streptococcus faecalis was found to predominate in the human and poultry gut, S. faecium predominated in the livestock gut, while both organisms were about equally demonstrated in water, soil, vegetation and sewage samples.