TY - JOUR
T1 - Quinolone-resistant Campylobacter infections in Denmark
T2 - Risk factors and clinical consequences
AU - Engberg, Jørgen
AU - Neimann, Jakob
AU - Nielsen, Eva Møller
AU - Aarestrup, Frank Møller
AU - Fussing, Vivian
PY - 2004/6
Y1 - 2004/6
N2 - We integrated data on quinolone and macrolide susceptibility patterns with epidemiologic and typing data from Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli infections in two Danish counties. The mean duration of illness was longer for 86 patients with quinolone-resistant C. jejuni infections (median 13.2 days) than for 381 patients with quinolone-sensitive C. jejuni infections (median 10.3 days, p = 0.001). Foreign travel, eating fresh poultry other than chicken and turkey, and swimming were associated with increased risk for quinolone-resistant C. jejuni infection. Eating fresh chicken (of presumably Danish origin) was associated with a decreased risk. Typing data showed an association between strains from retail food products and broiler chickens and quinolone-sensitive domestically acquired C. jejuni infections. An association between treatment with a fluoroquinolone before stool-specimen collection and having a quinolone-resistant C. jejuni infection was not observed.
AB - We integrated data on quinolone and macrolide susceptibility patterns with epidemiologic and typing data from Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli infections in two Danish counties. The mean duration of illness was longer for 86 patients with quinolone-resistant C. jejuni infections (median 13.2 days) than for 381 patients with quinolone-sensitive C. jejuni infections (median 10.3 days, p = 0.001). Foreign travel, eating fresh poultry other than chicken and turkey, and swimming were associated with increased risk for quinolone-resistant C. jejuni infection. Eating fresh chicken (of presumably Danish origin) was associated with a decreased risk. Typing data showed an association between strains from retail food products and broiler chickens and quinolone-sensitive domestically acquired C. jejuni infections. An association between treatment with a fluoroquinolone before stool-specimen collection and having a quinolone-resistant C. jejuni infection was not observed.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/2542513998
U2 - 10.3201/eid1006.030669
DO - 10.3201/eid1006.030669
M3 - Article
C2 - 15207057
AN - SCOPUS:2542513998
SN - 1080-6040
VL - 10
SP - 1056
EP - 1063
JO - Emerging Infectious Diseases
JF - Emerging Infectious Diseases
IS - 6
ER -