Broiler Chickens as Source of Human Fluoroquinolone- Resistant Escherichia coli

• Main Authors: Thorunn R. Thorsteinsdottir, Gunnsteinn Haraldsson, Vala Fridriksdottir, Karl G. Kristinsson, Eggert Gunnarsson
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Slaughter; Iceland
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.306.4629; http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/1/pdfs/09-0243.pdf

To investigate feed as a source for fl uoroquinoloneresistant Escherichia coli in broiler chickens, we compared antimicrobial drug–resistant E. coli from broiler feed and broilers with ciprofl oxacin-resistant human clinical isolates by using pulsed-fi eld gel electrophoresis. Feed was implicated as...