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Risk factors for antibiotic resistance in Campylobacter spp. isolated from raw poultry meat in Switzerland.

Ursula Ledergerber, Gertraud Regula, Roger Stephan, Jürg Danuser, Béatrice Bissig, and Katharina DC Stärk

BMC Public Health 3(1):39 (2003) PMID 14662013 PMCID 317320

The world-wide increase of foodborne infections with antibiotic resistant pathogens is of growing concern and is designated by the World Health Organization as an emerging public health problem. Thermophilic Campylobacter have been recognised as a major cause of foodborne bacterial gastrointestinal human infections in Switzerland and in many other countries throughout the world. Poultry meat is the most common source for foodborne cases caused by Campylobacter. Because all classes of antibiotics recommended for treatment of human campylobacteriosis are also used in veterinary medicine, in view of food safety, the resistance status of Campylobacter isolated from poultry meat is of special interest.

DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-3-39
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