Salmonella treatments ineffective frequently

Antimicrobials used to treat salmonella in both humans and animals (primarily chickens and turkeys and their derived meat products) were frequently ineffective, due to resistance, according to a new study of data from 2013, by the European Food Safety Authority and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.

The increasing resistance to antimicrobial drugs was especially high for turkeys, at 73%. Multi-drug resistance was also high in humans, at 31.8%; in broilers (56%); and fattening pigs (37.9%).