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Impact of food animal trade on the spread of mcr-1-mediated colistin resistance, Tunisia, July 2015.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin - 1 Jan 2016
Grami Raoudha, Mansour Wejdene, Mehri Wahib, Bouallègue Olfa, Boujaâfar Noureddine, Madec Jean-Yves, Haenni Marisa
Abstract excerpt
We report a high prevalence of MCR-1 and CTX-M-1-producing Escherichia coli in three Tunisian chicken farms. Chickens were imported from France or derived from French imported chicks. The same IncHI2-type plasmid reported to carry those genes in cattle in France and in a food sample in Portugal was found in Tunisian chickens of French origin. This suggests a significant impact of food animal trade on the spread...
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