The evidence for clonal spreading of quinolone resistance with a particular clonal complex of Campylobacter jejuni.

ABSTRACT: Campylobacter is the most prevalent cause of bacterial gastroenteritis worldwide and it represents a significant public health risk of increasing severity due to its escalating resistance to clinically important quinolone and macrolide antibiotics. As a zoonotic pathogen Campylobacter is transmitted along the food chain and naturally cycles from environmental waters, feedstuff, animals and food to humans. We determined antibiotic resistance profiles, as well as multilocus sequence types and flaA-SVR types for 52 C. jejuni isolated in Slovenia from human, animal, raw and cured chicken meat and water samples. Twenty-eight different sequence types, arranged in ten clonal complexes, three new allele types and five new sequence types were identified, indicating the relatively high diversity in

SUBMITTER: Kovac J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9151304 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature