29.11.2016

A British report shows increasing antibiotic resistance in bacteria commonly found in retail poultry.
Resistance to fluoroquinolone antibiotics have increased steadily since 2001 in Campylobacter jejuni isolates from UK-produced poultry meat samples (espeically chicken and turkey). While resistance to ciproflaxin and nalidixic acid were observed in 15% and 22% of poultry isolates in 2011, half of all isolates showed resistance to both drugs in 2014-2015.
According to the FSA, four of five UK cases of food-related Campylobacter illness come from contaminated poultry. In addition to rising resistance to ciproflaxin and nalidixic acid, which are among the drugs used to treat severe Campylobacter infections, the FSA report found that the prevalence of multidrug-resistant C jejuni isolates in retail chicken has also risen sharply, climbing from 19.1% in 2008 to 43.4% in 2014-2015.