Vancomycin-Resistant, Thermotolerant Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium in Ready-to-Eat Beef Luncheon and Sausage
Sara Abdelnaby Sallam, Mirela Imre, Samir Mohammed Abd-Elghany, Kálmán Imre, Khalid Ibrahim Sallam · 2026
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Sara Sallam and co-authors test processed beef in Egypt for drug-resistant gut bacteria in this 2026 paper. The team examined 150 samples of ready-to-eat beef luncheon and sausage from Mansoura. Every sample carried enterococci, and over five hundred isolates were collected. One species made up about seven in ten isolates. Many carried genes linked to harm, including one for a surface-coating enzyme found in nearly all.
Every isolate resisted several drugs at once, and some resisted almost everything tested. Resistance to vancomycin, a key reserve drug, appeared in about six in ten. Genes behind that resistance were widespread. Microwaving barely cut the counts, and even five minutes of boiling left survivors that kept their resistance traits.
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| CREATOR | Sara Abdelnaby Sallam, Mirela Imre, Samir Mohammed Abd-Elghany, Kálmán Imre, Khalid Ibrahim Sallam |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 61 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |