Extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli in human-derived and foodchain-derived samples from England, Wales, and Scotland: an epidemiological surveillance and typing study

Study shows ESBL-E coli strains from bacteraemias in UK match those prevalent as human gut colonists and in sewage, and are largely distinct from those in food animals and retail food, highlighting need to disrupt oral-faecal transmission and prevention/prompt treatment of UTIs
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news