Emerging Infectious Diseases
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Keywords:
Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Immunology, Infectious Diseases, ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL-INFECTIONS, CARRIAGE, Cambodia, ESBL, Escherichia coli, Southeast Asia, antibiotic resistance, antimicrobial resistance, bacteria, extended-spectrum β-lactamases, food safety, lower- and middle-income countries, Animals, Developing Countries, Drug Resistance, Bacterial, Escherichia coli Infections, Female, Fishes, Food Microbiology, Food Safety, Humans, Multilocus Sequence Typing, Phylogeny, Poultry, Prevalence, Red Meat, Seafood, beta-Lactamases, BIRDY study group, 1103 Clinical Sciences, 1108 Medical Microbiology, 1117 Public Health and Health Services, Microbiology, 3202 Clinical sciences, 4202 Epidemiology, 4203 Health services and systems
Abstract:
We compared extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli isolates from meat and fish, gut-colonized women, and infected patients in Cambodia. Nearly half of isolates from women were phylogenetically related to food-origin isolates; a subset had identical multilocus sequence types, extended-spectrum β-lactamase types, and antimicrobial resistance patterns. Eating sun-dried poultry may be an exposure route.