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*3
Table 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.
1This study was presented in part at the 12th International Workshop on Campylobacter, Helicobacter and Related Organisms, September 6–10, 2003, Aarhus, Denmark.
2Current affiliation is Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark.
3Current affiliation is Danish Toxicology Centre, Hørsholm, Denmark.
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