Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase-Producing Escherichia coli From Retail Chicken Meat and Humans: Comparison of Strains, Plasmids, Resistance Genes, and Virulence Factors

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2013

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Kluytmans, Jan A.J.W.
Overdevest, Ilse T.M.A.
Willemsen, Ina
Kluytmans-van den Bergh, Marjolein F.Q.
van der Zwaluw, Kim
Heck, Max
Rijnsburger, Martine
Vandenbroucke-Grauls, Christina M.J.E.
Savelkoul, Paul H.M.
Johnston, Brian D.

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University of Chicago Press

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Background. The worldwide prevalence of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae is increasing rapidly both in hospitals and in the community. A connection between ESBL-producing bacteria in food animals, retail meat, and humans

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Keywords: virulence factor; amplified fragment length polymorphism; article; bacterial strain; bacterium isolate; blood culture; chicken meat; clinical article; DNA fingerprinting; extended spectrum beta lactamase producing Enterobacteriaceae; extended spectrum bet chicken meat; ESBL-producing Escherichia coli; molecular typing; plasmids; resistance genes

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Clinical Infectious Diseases

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Journal article

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