Antimicrobial drug--resistant Escherichia coli from humans and poultry products, Minnesota and Wisconsin, 2002-2004.(RESEARCH)

From: Emerging Infectious Diseases | Date: June 1, 2007| Author: Belongia, Edward A.; Bender, Jeff; Clabots, Connie; Croy, Cynthia; Johnson, James R.; Johnston, Brian; Kuskowski, Michael A.; Sannes, Mark R.; Smith, Kirk E.; Winokur, Patricia L. | Copyright information

The food supply, including poultry products, may transmit antimicrobial drug-resistant Escherichia coli to humans. To assess this hypothesis, 931 geographically and temporally matched E. coli isolates from human volunteers (hospital inpatients and healthy vegetarians) and commercial poultry products (conventionally raised or raised without antimicrobial drugs) were tested by PCR for phylogenetic group (A, B1, B2, D) and 60 virulence genes associated with extraintestinal pathogenic ...

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