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Epidemiology, Antimicrobial Resistance, and Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae in Clinical Bovine Mastitis in Tunisia
- Source :
- Microbial Drug Resistance. 24:1242-1248
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Mary Ann Liebert Inc, 2018.
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Abstract
- Bovine mastitis is a major disease in dairy cattle that causes high economic losses annually. Staphylococci, streptococci, and coliforms are among the major pathogens responsible for such infections. While data on bovine mastitis are numerous in Europe where the efficacy of farm management was monitored, those are scarce in African countries. In this study, we reported the occurrence of Escherichia coli (118/372, 31.7%) and Klebsiella pneumoniae (77/372, 20.7%), two environmental pathogens known to cause bovine mastitis. Resistance phenotypes were frequently identified for tetracycline (E. coli, 46.6%/K. pneumoniae, 20.8%), sulfonamides-trimethoprim (17.8%/11.7%), gentamicin (19.5%/14.3%), and enrofloxacin (11.0%/6.5%). No carbapenem-resistant isolate was detected. Extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) were detected on selective medium in three E. coli and six K. pneumoniae, all carrying the bla
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Microbiology (medical)
Tunisia
medicine.drug_class
medicine.medical_treatment
030106 microbiology
Immunology
Antibiotics
Prevalence
Drug resistance
Biology
Microbiology
beta-Lactamases
03 medical and health sciences
Antibiotic resistance
Enterobacteriaceae
Drug Resistance, Bacterial
medicine
Animals
Mastitis, Bovine
Dairy cattle
Pharmacology
Enterobacteriaceae Infections
medicine.disease
Mastitis
Beta-lactamase
Cattle
Female
Gentamicin
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19318448 and 10766294
- Volume :
- 24
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Microbial Drug Resistance
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....06503a076a62445686f26a75b5a06535