Antibiotic response, conjugal transferability and curability of antibiotic resistance of Escherichia coli isolated from pregnant women with urinary tract infection

• Main Authors: Banagale, Ma. Ayesha, Castro, Jerome, Estrada, Mary Grace, Lopez, Gracielle, Sia, Gomelia
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1992
• Subjects: Antibiotics; Drug resistance in micro-organisms; Urinary tract infections; Micro-organisms, Effect of drugs on; Pregnant women
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/5915
• Institution: De La Salle University

Twenty-nine Escherichia coli isolates from pregnant women with urinary tract infection (UTI) were tested for their antibiotic sensitivity patterns using the disc agar diffusion method. The antibiotics used were ampicillin (10 ugs), amoxicillin (25 ugs), nalidixic acid (30 ugs) and nitrofurantoin (30...