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Dutch patients, retail chicken meat and poultry share the same ESBL genes, plasmids and strains.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Jun 2011
Leverstein-van Hall M A, Dierikx C M, Cohen Stuart J, Voets G M, van den Munckhof M P, van Essen-Zandbergen A, Platteel T, Fluit A C, van de Sande-Bruinsma N, Scharinga J, Bonten M J M, Mevius D J
Abstract excerpt
Intestinal carriage of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) -producing bacteria in food-producing animals and contamination of retail meat may contribute to increased incidences of infections with ESBL-producing bacteria in humans. Therefore, distribution of ESBL genes, plasmids and strain genotypes in Escherichia coli obtained from poultry and retail chicken meat in the Netherlands was determined and defined...
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