Contamination of Canadian private drinking water sources with antimicrobial resistant Escherichia coli

BACKGROUND: Surface and ground water across the world, including North America, is contaminated with bacteria resistant to antibiotics. The consumption of water contaminated with antimicrobial resistant Escherichia coli (E. coli) has been associated with the carriage of resistant E. coli in people who drink it. OBJECTIVES: To describe the proportion of drinking water samples submitted from private sources for bacteriological testing that were …