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Volume 10, Number 6—June 2004

Research

Antimicrobial Resistance among Campylobacter Strains, United States, 1997–2001

Amita Gupta*Comments to Author , Jennifer M. Nelson*, Timothy J. Barrett*, Robert V. Tauxe*, Shannon P. Rossiter*, Cindy R. Friedman*, Kevin W. Joyce*, Kirk E. Smith†, Timothy F. Jones‡, Marguerit A. Hawkins§, Beletshachew Shiferaw¶, James L. Beebe#, Duc J. Vugia**, Terry Rabatsky-Ehr††, James A. Benson‡‡, Timothy P. Root§§, Frederick J. Angulo*, and for the NARMS Working Group
Author affiliations: *Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Minnesota Department of Health, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA; ‡Tennessee Department of Health, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; §Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ¶Oregon Department of Human Services, Portland, Oregon, USA; #Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment, Denver, Colorado, USA; **California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California, USA; ††Connecticut Department of Public Health, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; ‡‡Georgia Department of Human Services, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; §§New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA

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Table 1

Antimicrobial resistance among Campylobacter isolates by species, NARMS 1997–2001

% Resistant
Antimicrobial
 C. jejuni (n = 1,471)
 C. coli (n = 63)
 C. upsaliensis (n = 7)
 C. lari (n = 2)
 C. fetus (n = 5)
 Undetermineda (n = 5 )
 Total (n = 1,553)
Azithromycinb
 2
 9
 0
 0
 0
 0
 2
Chloramphenicol
 0.3
 5
 0
 0
 0
 40
 0.6
Ciprofloxacin
 16
 30c
 14
 0
 0
 0
 16
Clindamycin
 1
 9
 0
 0
 0
 20
 2
Erythromycin
 2
 8
 0
 0
 0
 20
 2
Gentamicinb
 0
 2
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0.1
Nalidixic acid
 17
 36c
 14
 100
 80
 20
 18
Tetracycline 43 43 0 0 20 0 43

aUndetermined isolates were hippurate-negative Campylobacter that could not be further speciated with available polymerase chain reaction primers.
bFor azithromycin and gentamicin, only 1,336 isolates were tested.
cComparison of proportion of resistant C. coli to resistant C. jejuni was statistically significant for ciprofloxacin and nalidixic acid but not tetracycline (p < 0.01)

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1This isolate was reported to be ciprofloxacin resistant in reference

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