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Antimicrobial susceptibility in thermophilic Campylobacter species isolated from pigs and chickens in South Africa

A. Jonker, J.A. Picard
Journal of the South African Veterinary Association | Vol 81, No 4 | a153 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/jsava.v81i4.153 | © 2010 A. Jonker, J.A. Picard | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 21 May 2010 | Published: 21 May 2010

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Campylobacter jejuni is one of the leading causes of sporadic food-borne bacterial disease in humans. In intensive poultry and pig rearing systems the use of oral antibiotics is essential to maintain health. Consequently, there is a high risk for the thermophilic Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli resident in the intestinal tract of food animals to develop resistance to commonly used antibiotics. Contamination of meat or eggs with pathogenic strains of resistant Campylobacter could, therefore, result in a form of campylobacteriosis in humans that is difficult to treat. The aim of this investigation was to determine the antimicrobial susceptibility of thermophilic Campylobacter spp. isolated from pigs and poultry by the broth microdilution minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) test. A total of 482 samples from the Western Cape and Gauteng provinces was collected and analysed. Thirty-eight Campylobacter isolates were obtained. Analysis of data revealed that C. jejuni strains mainly of poultry origin were more resistant to the fluoroquinolones, macrolides and tetracyclines and the C. coli strains were more resistant to the macrolides and lincosamides. Multiresistance was also detected in 4 Campylobacter strains from the Western Cape. With the exception of tetracyclines, strains from high health Gauteng broiler farms were susceptible to antibiotics used to treat Campylobacter infections.

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antimicrobial susceptibility; broth microdilution; Campylobacter; minimum inhibitory concentration; thermophilic

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