ESBL BACTERIA FOUND IN ALMOST HALF OF CHICKEN MEAT IN DENMARK
September 1st, 2012
BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS
ALMOST half of chicken meat in Denmark in 2011 contained extended spectrum beta lactamase (ESBL) - an enzyme promoting resistance to antibiotics used to treat severe infections in humans - according to a new study from the Danish Integrated Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring and Research Programme (DANMAP).
Its 2011 report, which accounts every year for the occurrence of antimicrobial resistance in animals, food and humans, revealed that 44% of the samples from broiler meat produced in Denmark in 2011 and 48% of the broiler meat ...
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