Study Demonstrates Rise of AMR; 40 Percent of Meat Samples Contain Drug-Resistant E. Coli
Further underlining the pertinence of mitigating the growing global public health threat posed by antimicrobial resistance (AMR), recent research revealed 40 percent of Spanish supermarket meat samples to be contaminated with multidrug-resistant (MDR) Escherichia coli.
The findings of the research project, titled, “From Farm to Fork: Assessment of Meat as a Source of ESBL-Producing Enterobacteriaceae and Potentially Uropathogenic E. coli for Consumers,” was presented at the 33rd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark on April 15–18, 2023. The study’s authors are associated with the University of Santiago de Compostela-Lugo in Spain, the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, and the Spanish Agrifood Technology Center (CETAL).