Volume 16, Number 1—January 2010
Research
Food Reservoir for Escherichia coli Causing Urinary Tract Infections
Caroline Vincent, Patrick Boerlin, Danielle Daignault, Charles M. Dozois, Lucie Dutil, Chrissi Galanakis, Richard J. Reid-Smith, Pierre-Paul Tellier, Patricia A. Tellis, Kim Ziebell, and Amee R. Manges
Table 1
Sources of 844 Escherichia coli isolates collected and analyzed in Canada, by year and location, 2005–2007*
| Source | Total no. (%) isolates | Year, no. (%) isolates |
Location, no. (%) isolates |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | Quebec | Ontario | Other† | |||
| Clinical | ||||||||
| UTI |
353 (42) |
103 (29) |
175 (50) |
75 (21) |
353 (100) |
0 |
0 |
|
| Retail meat | ||||||||
| All | 417 (49) | 178 (43) | 158 (38) | 81(19) | 264 (63) | 139 (33) | 14 (3) | |
| Chicken | 253 (61) | 107 (42) | 101 (40) | 45 (18) | 141 (56) | 99 (39) | 13 (5) | |
| Beef | 82 (20) | 37 (45) | 26 (32) | 19 (23) | 81 (99) | 1 (1) | 0 | |
| Pork |
82 (20) |
34 (41) |
31 (38) |
17 (21) |
42 (51) |
39 (48) |
1 (1) |
|
| Restaurant/ready-to-eat foods | ||||||||
| All | 74 (9) | 19 (26) | 33 (45) | 22 (30) | 74 (100) | 0 | 0 | |
| Chicken | 21 (28) | 7 (33) | 6 (29) | 8 (38) | 21 (100) | 0 | 0 | |
| Beef | 13 (18) | 3 (23) | 6 (46) | 4 (31) | 13 (100) | 0 | 0 | |
| Pork | 5 (7) | 0 | 4 (80) | 1 (20) | 5 (100) | 0 | 0 | |
| Fish/seafood | 6 (8) | 2 (33) | 2 (33) | 2 (33) | 6 (100) | 0 | 0 | |
| Other meat‡ | 9 (12) | 1 (11) | 7 (78) | 1 (11) | 9 (100) | 0 | 0 | |
| Other food§ |
20 (27) |
6 (30) |
8 (40) |
6 (30) |
20 (100) |
0 |
0 |
|
| Total | 844 (100) | 300 (36) | 366 (43) | 178 (21) | 691 (82) | 139 (16) | 14 (2) | |
*UTI, urinary tract infection.
†British Columbia (n = 4) and Saskatchewan (n = 10).
‡Bison, lamb, duck, and snail.
§Fruits (honeydew melon), vegetables, cheese, rice, couscous, and pasta.
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