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Identification and antimicrobial susceptibility of fecal coliforms isolated from surface water

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of 274 fecal coliforms isolated from two watercourses influencing the costal water quality of the gdańsk and the puck bay, 265 were identified as escherichia coli. the remained strains belonged to: acinetobacter spp. (n=1), enterobacter spp. (n=3), klebsiella spp. (n=4) and shigella spp. (n=1). the susceptibility of 222 e. coli was tested against 19 antimicrobial agents: aminoglycosides, carbapenems, cephalosporines, folate antagonists, fluoroquinolones, monobactam, penicillins, penicillins/b-lactamase inhibitors, and tetracycline. the highest number of the isolates was resistant to penicillins (ampicillin 21% and piperacillin 14%) as well as to tetracycline (16%). up to 19% of e. coli isolates were resistant to 3 or more of analyzed antimicrobial agents and 9% were regarded as multiple antibiotic-resistant (mar) strains. two of analyzed isolates were regarded as extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) - producing strains.

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artykuł w czasopiśmie wyróżnionym w JCR
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POLISH JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES no. 20, pages 941 - 950,
ISSN: 1230-1485
Language:
English
Publication year:
2011
Bibliographic description:
Łuczkiewicz A., Jankowska K., Kurlenda J., Olańczuk-Neyman K.: Identification and antimicrobial susceptibility of fecal coliforms isolated from surface water// POLISH JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES. -Vol. 20, nr. iss. 4 (2011), s.941-950
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Gdańsk University of Technology

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