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Norwegian patients and retail chicken meat share cephalosporin-resistant Escherichia coli and IncK/blaCMY-2 resistance plasmids.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Jun 2017
Berg E S, Wester A L, Ahrenfeldt J, Mo S S, Slettemeås J S, Steinbakk M, Samuelsen Ø, Grude N, Simonsen G S, Løhr I H, Jørgensen S B, Tofteland S, Lund O, Dahle U R, Sunde M
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OBJECTIVES: In 2012 and 2014 the Norwegian monitoring programme for antimicrobial resistance in the veterinary and food production sectors (NORM-VET) showed that 124 of a total of 406 samples (31%) of Norwegian retail chicken meat were contaminated with extended-spectrum cephalosporin-resistant Escherichia coli. The aim of this study was to compare selected cephalosporin-resistant E. coli from humans and poultry...
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