Volume 10, Number 6—June 2004
Research
Quinolone-resistant Campylobacter Infections in Denmark: Risk Factors and Clinical Consequences1
Jørgen Engberg*†
, Jakob Neimann‡, Eva Møller Nielsen§2, Frank Møller Aarestrup§, and Vivian Fussing*3
, Jakob Neimann‡, Eva Møller Nielsen§2, Frank Møller Aarestrup§, and Vivian Fussing*3Table 1
Quinolone resistance by history of recent foreign travel and comparison with Campylobacter isolates from food products and broiler chickens
| Species | Quinolone-resistant isolates |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total no. (N = 1,204) | Human (n = 678) |
Food (n = 180) |
Broiler chickens (n = 49) |
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| Travel (n = 152) |
Domestic (n = 526) |
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| No. | (%) | No. | (%) | No. | (%) | No. | (%) | |||
| C. jejuni |
1,118 |
137 |
48.2 |
506 |
9.9 |
153 |
8.5 |
39 |
5.2 |
|
| C. coli |
79 |
15 |
66.7 |
14 |
7.1 |
27 |
29.6 |
10 |
– |
|
| C. lari |
1 |
0 |
– |
1 |
100 |
0 |
– |
0 |
– |
|
| C. spp.a |
6 |
0 |
– |
1 |
20 |
0 |
– |
0 |
– |
|
| Total | 1,204 | 152 | 50.0 | 526 | 9.9 | 180 | 13.7 | 49 | 5.2 | |
aSpeciation not performed.
