Publication Date:
1984-08-24
Description:
The importance and origin of antimicrobial-resistant Salmonella infections were examined in 52 outbreaks investigated by the Centers for Disease Control between 1971 and 1983. The case fatality rate was higher for patients infected with antimicrobial-resistant Salmonella (4.2 percent) than for those with antimicrobial-sensitive infections (0.2 percent). In the 38 outbreaks with identified sources, food animals were the source of 11 (69 percent) of 16 resistant and 6 (46 percent) of 13 sensitive outbreak strains.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Holmberg, S D -- Wells, J G -- Cohen, M L -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1984 Aug 24;225(4664):833-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6382605" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Anti-Bacterial Agents/*pharmacology
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Cattle/microbiology
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*Disease Outbreaks
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Drug Resistance, Microbial
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*Food Microbiology
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Humans
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Meat
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Milk/microbiology
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Poultry/microbiology
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Salmonella/*drug effects
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Salmonella Infections/microbiology/*transmission
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Salmonella typhimurium/drug effects
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United States
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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