Antimicrobial Resistance of Fecal-Indicator Bacteria Isolated from Aquatic Animal Farms along the Korean Coast

Table 1

Distributions of fecal-indicator bacteria in water samples and aquatic animals collected from aquaculture farms along the Korean coast in 2018.

Samples
Type	Total number	Positive number (%)
		Escherichia coli	Enterococcus species
			E. faecium	E. faecalis	Subtotal
Water	50	12 (24.0)	2 (4.0)	1 (2.0)	3 (6.0)
Fish farms	38	11 (28.9)	2 (5.3)	1 (2.6)	3 (7.9)
Shrimp farms	12	1 (8.3)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)
Aquatic animals	48	9 (18.8)	3 (6.2)	2 (4.2)	5 (10.4)
Fish	37	8 (21.6)	2 (5.4)	1 (2.7)	3 (8.1)
Shrimp	11	1 (9.1)	1 (9.1)	1 (9.1)	2 (18.2)
Total	98	21 (21.4)	5 (5.1)	3 (3.1)	8 (8.2)

Staphylococcus aureus was not detected in any of the samples.