AIMS To determine the effect of antimicrobial selective pressure on the transmission of antimicrobial resistant and sensitive strains of Salmonella in poultry. METHODS AND RESULTS Eight pens housed 12 broiler chicks each. Two chicks in four of the pens were inoculated with a Salm. Typhimurium strain resistant to 12 antimicrobials (including tetracycline), and two chicks in each of the four ot...

Increasing antibiotic resistance in the population of Propionibacterium acnes is a major concern. Our aims were to examine the clonal relationships and anatomical distribution of resistant and sensitive P. acnes. A collection of 350 P. acnes isolates was therefore used to determine the minimum inhibitory concentration of tetracycline, erythro-mycin and clindamycin, multilocus sequence type, and...

An aerosol-induced staphylococcal infection of previously non-infected guinea pigs is described. Investigations concerning the dynamics of this infection indicate that: 1. An infection ("carrier state") could be established predictably in every animal exposed to the aerosol inoculum. 2. Infection was limited to the upper respiratory tract and occurred without apparent systemic dissemination. 3....

The in vitro activity of three tetracycline antibiotics against 127 strains of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus (Herella vaginicola) were compared. Almost all strains were susceptible to minocycline and doxycycline, whereas most strains were resistant to tetracycline.

Antibiotic-induced changes in the fecal microflora after oral administration of tetracycline hydrochloride and doxycycline for 8 to 10 days were compared. A significant difference was noted in the concentrations of Escherichia coli resistant to tetracyclines. With tetracycline hydrochloride, there was a mean increase of approximately 10(4) resistant strains per g compared to only 10(1)/g for do...

BACKGROUND This aim of this work was to determine the in vitro activity of clarithromycin, amoxycillin, metronidazole and tetracycline against Helicobacter pylori and clonality among resistant and sensitive strains isolated from North India. METHODOLOGY A total of 68 H. pylori isolates from peptic ulcer disease and non ulcer dyspepsia patients were examined. These strains were subjected for d...

The aim of this study was to investigate bacterial contamination on surfaces randomly selected Automated Teller Machine and their sensitivity antibiotics in São Paulo city, Brazil. swabs collected aseptically were inoculated selective non-selective media triplicate incubated at 37 °C for 24 h. After Gram staining the isolated colonies, complementary biochemical tests applied. antibiotic pattern...

This study evaluated the microbial safety and antibiotic resistance risks of a sustainable ecological farm under large-scale open-air composting (OC) green toilet systems (CT). Samples livestock manure, compost, soil, vegetables, rainwater were analysed to determine best treatment wastes risk assessment land application. Results showed that pathogenic bacteria (PB) in manure was significantly g...

Six strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae were distributed to 411 United Kingdom laboratories who were asked to test the susceptibility of the strains to penicillin, cefuroxime, tetracycline and spectinomycin and to test for production of beta-lactamase. Details of methods used were requested by means of a questionnaire. The number of reports recording sensitive strains as resistant was 5% for penic...

Campylobacter jejuni 3H40 and 4B20 harbored 59-kilobase (kb) self-transmissible plasmids encoding resistance to kanamycin and tetracycline. Although the two antibiotic resistances were more frequently inherited together, some transconjugants and ethidium bromide segregants which were resistant to only one of these antibiotics were recovered. The kanamycin-susceptible, tetracycline-resistant seg...