Antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli from retail poultry meat with different antibiotic use claims.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We sought to determine if the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli differed across retail poultry products and among major production categories, including organic, "raised without antibiotics", and conventional.

Results

We collected all available brands of retail chicken and turkey-including conventional, "raised without antibiotic", and organic products-every two weeks from January to December 2012. In total, E. coli was recovered from 91% of 546 turkey products tested and 88% of 1367 chicken products tested. The proportion of samples contaminated with E. coli was similar across all three production categories. Resistance prevalence varied by meat type and was highest among E. coli isolates from turkey for the majority of antibiotics tested. In ge

SUBMITTER: Davis GS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6215666 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature