Volume 19, Number 8—August 2013
Research
Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase– and AmpC-Producing Enterobacteria in Healthy Broiler Chickens, Germany
Felix Reich, Viktoria Atanassova, and Günter Klein
Table 1
Prevalence of ESBL- or AmpC-producing enterobacteria in broiler chickens at slaughter, Germany, 2010*
| Farm | Carcass |
Cecum |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. samples | ESBL, no. (%) | AmpC, no. (%) | No. samples | ESBL, no. (%) | AmpC, no. (%) | ||
| A, 1 | 20 | 20 (100) | 11 (55) | 20 | 16 (80) | 10 (50) | |
| A, 2 | 20 | 17 (85) | 9 (45) | 19 | 19 (100) | 7 (36.8) | |
| B, 1 | 10 | 6 (60) | 3 (30) | 12 | 2 (16.7) | 12 (100) | |
| B, 2 | 20 | 19 (95) | 14 (70) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
*ESBL, extended-spectrum β-lactamase.
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