Broiler chickens as source of human fluoroquinolone-resistant Escherichia coli, Iceland

• Published in: Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Authors: Thorsteinsdottir, Thorunn R, Haraldsson, Gunnsteinn, Fridriksdottir, Vala, Kristinsson, Karl G, Gunnarsson, Eggert
• Other Authors: Institute for Experimental Pathology, University of Iceland, Keldur v/Vesturlandsveg, 112 Reykjavík, Iceland. [e-mail]
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 2010
• Subjects: Animals; Anti-Bacterial Agents; Chickens; Drug Resistance; Bacterial; Electrophoresis; Gel; Pulsed-Field; Escherichia coli; Escherichia coli Infections; Fluoroquinolones; Food Microbiology; Humans; Iceland; Smella
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2336/90594; https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1601.090243

Neðst á síðunni er hægt að nálgast greinina í heild sinni með því að smella á hlekkinn Skoða/Opna(view/open) To investigate feed as a source for fluoroquinolone-resistant Escherichia coli in broiler chickens, we compared antimicrobial drug-resistant E. coli from broiler feed and broilers with ciprofloxacin-resistant human clinical isolates by using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. Feed was implicated as a source for ciprofloxacin-resistant broiler-derived E. coli and broilers as a source for ciprofloxacin-resistant human-derived E. coli.