370 Quaternary Ammonium Compounds’ activity and occurrence of tolerance associated genes among Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium from diverse origins and timespans

Ana Paula Fernandes Pereira
1UCIBIO – Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit, REQUIMTE, Laboratory of Microbiology, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto. Portugal, 2Associate Laboratory i4HB – Institute for Health and Bioeconomy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto. Portugal. 3Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação.
anapaula-pereira@live.com.pt
Patrícia Antunes1,2,3, Rob Willems4, Jukka Corander5, Luísa Peixe1,2, Ana R. Freitas1,2,6, Carla Novais1,2
1UCIBIO – Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit, REQUIMTE, Laboratory of Microbiology, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto. Portugal, 2Associate Laboratory i4HB – Institute for Health and Bioeconomy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto. Portugal, 3Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação. Universidade do Porto. Portugal, 4Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, 5Department of Biostatistics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, 6TOXRUN, Toxicology Research Unit, University Institute of Health Sciences, CESPU, CRL, Gandra, Portugal.