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Widespread acquisition of antimicrobial resistance among Campylobacter isolates from UK retail poultry and evidence for clonal expansion of resistant lineages.
BMC microbiology - 15 Jul 2013
Wimalarathna Helen M L, Richardson Judith F, Lawson Andy J, Elson Richard, Meldrum Richard, Little Christine L, Maiden Martin C J, McCarthy Noel D, Sheppard Samuel K
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BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial resistance is increasing among clinical Campylobacter cases and is common among isolates from other sources, specifically retail poultry - a major source of human infection. In this study the antimicrobial susceptibility of isolates from a UK-wide survey of Campylobacter in retail poultry in 2001 and 2004-5 was investigated. The occurrence of phenotypes resistant to tetracycline,...
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