Clostridioides difficile is a leading cause of human antibiotic-associated diarrhoeal disease globally. Zoonotic reservoirs infection are increasingly suspected to play role in the emergence this community and dogs considered as one potential source. Here we use canine case-control study at referral veterinary hospital Scotland assess: i) risk factors associated with carriage C . by dogs, ii) w...

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Rifampin is a broad-spectrum, concentration-dependent, bactericidal and/or bacteriostatic antibiotic, with activity against many gram-positive and some gram-negative aerobic bacteria as well as facultative anaerobic organisms (Wilson et al., 1988). It is a complex macrocyclic semisynthetic antibiotic derived from rifamycin B. The principle use of rifampin in equine medicine is for combination t...

Interest in polyether antibiotics has remained at a high level for over 20 years, owing largely to the commercial importance of this class of drugs in veterinary medicine. For example, monensin1*, lasalocid1} and salmomycin2) are marketed as anticoccidial agents for poultry, and are used as growth permittants in cattle or swine. Narasin1} and maduramicin3) are also used as anticoccidial agents....

More than 20 key officials from the American Veterinary Medical Association and the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges met with staff from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) December 5–6, 2002, to discuss the increasing convergence of issues confronting human and animal health. Among the officials in attendance were the deans from more than half of all U.S. ve...

The objective of the present study was to evaluate the antibiotic susceptibility of 25 Listeria monocytogenes isolates isolated from raw cattle milk towards 15 antibiotics presently used in veterinary and human therapy. Antibiotic susceptibility tests were performed by using the Kirby Bauer disk diffusion method. The isolates were tested for their susceptibility to 15 different common antimicro...

Semi-synthetic derivatives of the tricyclic diterpene antibiotic pleuromutilin from the basidiomycete Clitopilus passeckerianus are important in combatting bacterial infections in human and veterinary medicine. These compounds belong to the only new class of antibiotics for human applications, with novel mode of action and lack of cross-resistance, representing a class with great potential. Bas...

Antibiotics are a major tool utilized by the healthcare industry to fight bacterial infections; however, bacteria are highly adaptable organisms, able develop resistance to antibiotics. Consequently, decades of antibiotic use, or rather misuse, have resulted in bacterial resistance to many modern antibiotics. This resistance can cause significant danger and suffering for many people with common...

The occurrence and distribution of five groups of antibiotics were investigated in the surface sediments of the Yangtze Estuary over four seasons. Four tetracyclines (TCs), sulfaquinoxaline (SQ), enrofloxacin (EFC) and thiamphenicol (TAP) were detected in all the samples, while sulfamerazine (SM) and sulfathiazole (ST) showed the lowest detection frequency. The detection frequencies and antibio...

Aerococcus viridans, a less frequently isolated bacteria, is a gram-positive, catalase-negative coccus, found singly or in tetrads, with biochemical and growth characteristics of streptococci and enterococci. This microorganism, usually susceptible to penicillin, is often found in the environment and is infrequently associated with human/veterinary infections. We described a case of Holstein Fr...