Volume 18, Number 3—March 2012
Research
Chicken as Reservoir for Extraintestinal Pathogenic Escherichia coli in Humans, Canada
Table 1
Composition of closely related Escherichia coli clonal groups from humans and retail meat or abattoir source isolates, Canada, 2005–2007*
Source | No. (%) isolates |
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Year |
Geographic area |
Total | |||||||||
2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | QC | ON | BC/AB | SK/MB | Maritimes | |||
UTI in humans | |||||||||||
All | 102 (21) | 174 (37) | 137 (29) | 62 (13) | 379 (80) | 37 (8) | 23 (5) | 24 (5) | 12 (3) | 475 (100) | |
Manges collection† | 102 (21) | 174 (37) | 75 (16) | 0 | 351 (74) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 351 (74) | |
Zhanel collection‡ | 0 | 0 | 62 (13) | 62 (13) | 28 (6) | 37 (8) | 23 (5) | 24 (5) | 12 (3) | 124 (26) | |
Retail meat | |||||||||||
All | 275 (37) | 243 (33) | 219 (30) | 0 | 521 (71) | 202 (27) | 4 (1) | 10 (1) | 0 | 737 (100) | |
Beef | 84 (11) | 72 (10) | 86 (12) | 0 | 210 (28) | 32 (4) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 242 (33) | |
Chicken | 107 (15) | 101 (14) | 45 (6) | 0 | 141 (19) | 99 (13) | 3 (0.4) | 10 (1) | 0 | 253 (34) | |
Pork | 84 (11) | 70 (9) | 88 (12) | 0 | 170 (23) | 71 (10) | 1 (0.1) | 0 | 0 | 242 (33) | |
Abattoir | |||||||||||
All | 133 (38) | 101 (29) | 115 (33) | 0 | 107 (31) | 146 (42) | 48 (14) | 30 (9) | 4 (1) | 349 (100) | |
Beef | 18 (5) | 22 (6) | 20 (6) | 0 | 11 (3) | 23 (7) | 17 (5) | 8 (2) | 1 (0.3) | 60 (17) | |
Chicken§ | 89 (26) | 60 (17) | 80 (23) | 0 | 75 (21) | 104 (30) | 27 (8) | 10 (3) | 2 (1) | 229 (66) | |
Pig¶ | 26 (7) | 19 (5) | 15 (4) | 0 | 21 (6) | 19 (5) | 4 (1) | 12 (3) | 1 (0.3) | 60 (17) | |
Total | 510 (33) | 518 (33) | 471 (30) | 62 (4) | 1,007 (65) | 385 (25) | 75 (5) | 64 (4) | 16 (1) | 1,561 (100) |
*QC, Québec; ON, Ontario; BC, British Columbia; AB, Alberta; SK, Saskatchewan; MB, Manitoba; Maritimes, New Brunswick/Nova Scotia/Prince Edward Island; UTI, urinary tract infection.
†351 E. coli isolates recovered from humans with UTIs in Montréal during June 2005–May 2007.
‡124 E. coli isolates from humans with community- or hospital-acquired UTIs from sources throughout Canada during 2007–2008.
§The geographic area was unknown for 11 isolates from chicken.
¶The geographic area was unknown for 3 isolates from pigs.
1These authors contributed equally to this article.
2Deceased.