MINNEAPOLIS — A new US government report shows that the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in retail poultry and meat samples in 2010 varied greatly depending on the type of bacteria and meat, with resistant salmonella in chicken breasts one of the more common findings, according to the Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy at the University of Minnesota.
The 2010 retail meat report of the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS), released March 1, also suggests that the 2005 ban on use of fluoroquinolones in poultry is helping to reduce the prevalence of resistance to some of those drugs. . .
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