12.05.2012

Bulletin-Epidemiologique N°50 - May 2012

Monitoring of Campylobacter antimicrobial resistance has been conducted by the General Directorate for Food (Ministry of Agriculture) since 2000 in poultry, swine and bovine production, and is performed by laboratories from the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety (Anses). Strains of Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli are isolated and identified from production representative samples collected in slaughterhouses. The minimum inhibitory concentrations of important antimicrobials are determined.
For poultry, resistance to macrolides is rare for C. jejuni and is usually lower than 20% for C. coli, but resistance to fluoroquinolones has increased regularly up to 51% for C. jejuni and close to 70% for C. coli in 2010.