{{Short description|Species of bacterium}} {{Speciesbox | taxon = Enterococcus avium | authority = (''ex'' Nowlan and Deibel 1967) Collins ''et al.'' 1984 }}
'''''Enterococcus avium''''', a species of ''Enterococcus'',<ref name="pmid15767825">{{cite journal |vauthors=Mohanty S, Dhawan B, Kapil A, Das BK, Pandey P, Gupta A |title=Brain abscess due to Enterococcus avium |journal=Am. J. Med. Sci. |volume=329 |issue=3 |pages=161–2 |date=March 2005 |pmid=15767825 |doi= 10.1097/00000441-200503000-00011}}</ref> 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.<ref>[http://www.steadyhealth.com/encyclopedia/Enterococcus_avium Enterococcus avium] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716134740/http://www.steadyhealth.com/encyclopedia/Enterococcus_avium |date=2011-07-16 }} at steadyhealth.com. Accessed July 18, 2010.</ref>{{Dead link|date=March 2026}} VREA cases in humans have been successfully treated with linezolid.<ref>Lee, Prescott P. MD; Donald A. Ferguson, Jr.; John J. Laffan. [http://journals.lww.com/infectdis/Fulltext/2004/07000/Vancomycin_Resistant_Enterococcus_avium.6.aspx Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus avium]. ''Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice: July 2004'' 12:4, pp. 239-244. Accessed July 17, 2010.</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://bacdive.dsmz.de/index.php?search=5270&submit=Search Type strain of ''Enterococcus avium'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase]
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avium Category:Bacteria described in 1967 Category:Gram-positive bacteria
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