Conjugative transferability of the antibiotic resistance in fecal isolates of Escherichia coli from the San Lazaro Hospital

• Main Author: Zabal, Julieta C.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1993
• Subjects: Antibiotics > Testing; Drug resistance in microorganisms; Microorganisms, Effect of drugs on; San Lazaro Hospital (Philippines); Bacteriology; Biology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/1528; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8366&context=etd_masteral
• Institution: De La Salle University

The antibiotic susceptibility patterns of Escherichia coli isolated from rectal swabs of patients from the San Lazaro Hospital were determined using the standardized disk-agar diffusion method. The antibiotics tested were amikacin, chloramphenicol, metilmicin, sulphamethoxazole-trimethoprim and nali...