Gert van der Hoek
In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
machinetranslated
ESBL's often are associated with chickenmeat. In these samples there was no relation with the typical "chicken bacteria".
Also in France ESBL's were found in vegetables. Probably: if you look for it, you will find it.
This find is underlining the growing tendency of community acquired multiresistant bacteria.
ESBLs found in raw vegetables
Bean sprouts
Roland / Flickr / Creative Commons / By
Added: Monday, April 18, 2011, 16:19
Updated: Monday, April 18, 2011, 17:07
By editor healthcare Rinke van den Brink
Some raw vegetables contain ESBLs bacteria resistant to many
antibiotics. These bacteria species are widespread in human and animal
intestines and airways. According to research from the VUmc in Amsterdam tomorrow
presented at the congress of the Dutch Association of Medical Microbiology.
More than five percent of total 120 vegetable samples tested showed an infection with ESBL-
containing resistant bacteria. It is in most cases other bacteria with ESBLs
than found until now in (chicken) meat were found. The samples came from fifteen different
vegetables that grow in or on the ground.
Read more (Dutch)
ESBL's often are associated with chickenmeat. In these samples there was no relation with the typical "chicken bacteria".
Also in France ESBL's were found in vegetables. Probably: if you look for it, you will find it.
This find is underlining the growing tendency of community acquired multiresistant bacteria.
ESBLs found in raw vegetables
Bean sprouts
Roland / Flickr / Creative Commons / By
Added: Monday, April 18, 2011, 16:19
Updated: Monday, April 18, 2011, 17:07
By editor healthcare Rinke van den Brink
Some raw vegetables contain ESBLs bacteria resistant to many
antibiotics. These bacteria species are widespread in human and animal
intestines and airways. According to research from the VUmc in Amsterdam tomorrow
presented at the congress of the Dutch Association of Medical Microbiology.
More than five percent of total 120 vegetable samples tested showed an infection with ESBL-
containing resistant bacteria. It is in most cases other bacteria with ESBLs
than found until now in (chicken) meat were found. The samples came from fifteen different
vegetables that grow in or on the ground.
Read more (Dutch)