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Volume 17, Number 7—July 2011
Research

Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase Genes of Escherichia coli in Chicken Meat and Humans, the Netherlands

Ilse Overdevest, Ina Willemsen, Martine Rijnsburger, Andrew Eustace, Li Xu, Peter M. Hawkey, Max Heck, Paul Savelkoul, Christina Vandenbroucke-Grauls, Kim van der Zwaluw, Xander Huijsdens, and Jan KluytmansComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Author affiliations: St. Elisabeth Hospital, Tilburg, the Netherlands (I. Overdevest, J. Kluytmans); Amphia Hospital, Breda, the Netherlands (I. Overdevest, I. Willemsen, J. Kluytmans); University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (M. Rijnsburger, P. Savelkoul, C. Vandenbroucke-Grauls, J. Kluytmans); Heart of England National Health Service Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK (A. Eustace, L. Xu, P. Hawkey); University of Birmingham, Birmingham (P. Hawkey); National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection, Bilthoven, the Netherlands (M. Heck, K. van der Zwaluw, X. Hiujsdens)

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Figure 1

Distribution of extended-spectrum β-lactamase genes in chicken meat (A), human rectal swabs (B), and human blood cultures (C), the Netherlands. Values in parentheses are no. positive.

Figure 1. Distribution of extended-spectrum β-lactamase genes in chicken meat (A), human rectal swabs (B), and human blood cultures (C), the Netherlands. Values in parentheses are no. positive.

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