Originally published by our sister publication Infectious Disease Special Edition
Forty percent of meat samples tested from supermarkets in Spain were positive for multidrug-resistant (MDR) Escherichia coli, according to a presentation at ECCMID 2023: the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, held in Copenhagen, Denmark (poster 1483).
It has long been known that the food chain can be a source of E. coli, but data about resistance levels in food are not widely