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
zdravstveno varstvo2004Vol. 15pp. 226-230
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Abstract
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.