Antimicrobial susceptibility of Campylobacter spp. isolated from broiler chickens in Northern Ireland
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- 1 July 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
- Vol. 52 (2) , 220-223
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkg333
Abstract
Between February 2000 and October 2001, cloacal swabs were collected from 387 broiler chicken flocks in Northern Ireland. Campylobacter isolates from the 262 positive flocks were tested with common antimicrobial agents using a disc diffusion method and by Etests. Resistance to erythromycin, gentamicin and chloramphenicol was gyrA gene showed a mutation leading to Thr-86 to Ile substitution among highly resistant ciprofloxacin isolates. Only 0.8% of the isolates studied were resistant to four or more antibiotics.Keywords
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