As per the findings of the Pasteur Institute in France, François-Xavier Weill, MD, and Simon Le Hello, PharmD, has warned drug resistant strain of Salmonella, called S. Kentucky, to be on the rise.

This deadly super-bug that used to get treated by ciprofloxacin, a common treatment for severe Salmonella infections, has got resistant to it. The study, which got published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, revealed that 489 patients in France, England, Wales and Denmark were infected with a multidrug-resistant strain of Salmonella, from 2000 to 2008.

According to the researchers, poultry is an important agent for infection, and they got to know that the import of chicken and turkey from Ethiopia, Morocco and Nigeria has led to the increase in the infection. These countries use heavy amount of antibiotics in chicken and turkey farming, which make it untreatable by those same drugs, once it has infected humans.

Symptoms of the disease are similar to food poisoning illness, diarrhea or vomiting, but could be serious for elderly, having week immune system.

Dr. Simon Le Hello, one of the study researchers said “We hope that this publication might stir awareness among national and international health, food, and agricultural authorities so that they take the necessary measures to control and stop the dissemination on this strain before it spreads globally".