Table 1.
CTX-M-producing E. coli isolated from chicken meat by country
| Origin | Total positive/tested | CTX-M enzyme present |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CTX-M-1 | CTX-M-2 | CTX-M-8 | CTX-M-14 | ||
| British | 1/62 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Irish | 0/3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Brazil | 5/10 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Brazil/Poland/Francea | 3/4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Poland | 0/4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Netherlands | 2/2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Spain | 0/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| France | 0/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Denmark | 0/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| German | 0/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unknown | 6/40b | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4c |
| Total | 17/129 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 4 |
a
Precise country of origin not stated on packaging.
b
Country of origin not identified on packaging.
c
All chicken meat containing E. coli with CTX-M-14 was purchases from 2 major supermarkets and was processed at 2 UK cutting stations.