Prevalence of antimicrobial resistance and integrons in Escherichia Coli from Punjab, Pakistan
AUTOR(ES)
Muhammad, Idrees, Uzma, Mussarat, Yasmin, Badshah, Mehmood, Qadir, Habib, Bokhari
FONTE
Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2011-06
RESUMO
Antimicrobial resistance was studied in Escherichia coli strains isolated from urine samples of 457 patients suffering from urinary tract infection. High prevalence of class 1 integrons (43.56%), sulfamethoxazole resistance genes sul1 (45.54%) and sul2 (51.48%) along with occurrence of quinolone resistance genes was detected in multi drug resistance isolates.
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