Recovery of Cephalosporin Resistant Escherichia coli and Salmonella from Pork, Beef and Chicken Marketed in Nova Scotia

Kevin R Forward; Katherine M Matheson; Margot Hiltz; Heather Musgrave; Cornelius Poppe

doi:10.1155/2004/695305

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology (Jan 2004)

Recovery of Cephalosporin Resistant Escherichia coli and Salmonella from Pork, Beef and Chicken Marketed in Nova Scotia

Kevin R Forward,
Katherine M Matheson,
Margot Hiltz,
Heather Musgrave,
Cornelius Poppe

Affiliations

Kevin R Forward: Departments of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, and Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Katherine M Matheson: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Margot Hiltz: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Heather Musgrave: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Cornelius Poppe: Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses, Population and Public Health Branch, Health Canada, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2004/695305
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 15, no. 4
pp. 226 – 230

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial use in farm animals is a potentially important contributor to the emergence of antimicrobial resistance. Resistant Salmonella may lead to serious human infections and resistant Escherichia coli may transfer plasmid-encoded resistance genes to other pathogens.

Published in Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology

ISSN: 1712-9532 (Print); 1918-1493 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Infectious and parasitic diseases; Science: Microbiology
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/9575

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