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Antibiotic resistance of Clostridium perfringens isolates from broiler chickens in Egypt.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Elhariri, Mahmoud |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | The use of antibiotic feed additives in broiler chickens results in a high prevalence of resistance among their enteric bacteria, with a consequent emergence of antibiotic resistance in zoonotic enteropathogens. Despite growing concerns about the emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains, which show varying prevalences in different geographic regions, little work has been done to investigate this issue in the Middle East. This study provides insight into one of the world's most common and financially crippling poultry diseases, necrotic enteritis caused by Clostridium perfringens. The study was designed to determine the prevalence of antibiotic resistance in C. perfringens isolates from clinical cases of necrotic enteritis in broiler chickens in Egypt. A total of 125 isolates were obtained from broiler flocks in 35 chicken coops on 17 farms and were tested using the disc diffusion method. All 125 isolates were resistant to gentamicin, streptomycin, oxolinic acid, lincomycin, erythromycin and spiramycin. The prevalence of resistance to other antibiotics was also high: rifampicin (34%), chloramphenicol (46%), spectinomycin (50%), tylosin-fosfomycin (52%), ciprofloxacin (58%), norfloxacin (67%), oxytetracycline (71%), flumequine (78%), enrofloxacin (82%), neomycin (93%), colistin (94%), pefloxacin (94%), doxycycline (98%) and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (98%). It is recommended that C. perfringens infections in Egypt should be treated with antibiotics for which resistant isolates are rare at present; namely, amoxicillin, ampicillin, cephradine, fosfomycin and florfenicol. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://web.oie.int/boutique/extrait/0907201300003enosman841850.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.oie.int/fileadmin/Home/eng/Publications_&_Documentation/docs/pdf/revue_plurithematique/2013/No09072013-00003-EN-Osman.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 24761735v1 |
| Volume Number | 32 |
| Issue Number | 3 |
| Journal | Revue scientifique et technique |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Amoxicillin Ampicillin Antibiotic Resistance, Microbial Cephradine Chloramphenicol Ciprofloxacin Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin:PrThr:Pt:Body fld:Ord Colistin Crohn Disease Doxycycline Enteritis Enterobacteriaceae Erythromycin Fosfomycin Trometamol Salt Gentamicins Lincomycin Multi-Drug Resistance Necrosis Neomycin Norfloxacin Oxolinic Acid Oxytetracycline Pefloxacin Poultry Diseases Rifampin Spectinomycin Spiramycin Streptomycin Sulfamethoxazole Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole Combination Tylosin Zoonotic Bacterial Infection enrofloxacin florfenicol flumequine |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
