Leila Soufi, Mohamed Salah Abbassi, Yolanda Sáenz, Laura Vinué, Sergio Somalo, Myriam Zarazaga, Asad Abbas, Rafika Dbaya, Latifa Khanfir, Assia Ben Hassen, Salah Hammami, Carmen Torres
Fifty-five Escherichia coli isolates were acquired from chicken and turkey meat obtained from two slaughterhouses in Tunis. Eighty-nine percent, 80%, 78%, 67%, 45%, 27%, 7%, 4%, and 2% of these isolates showed resistance to tetracycline, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, streptomycin, nalidixic acid, ampicillin, chloramphenicol, ciprofloxacin, colistine, and gentamicin, respectively. No resistance was detected to cefotaxime, ceftazidime, or amikacin. bla(TEM) gene was found in 22 of 25 ampicillin-resistant isolates, and 1 isolate harbored bla(OXA-1) gene...
November 2009: Foodborne Pathogens and Disease