Antibiotic Resistance Pattern of Staphylococcus aureus Isolated from Seafood

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorMurugadas, V.
dc.contributor.authorJoseph, T.C.
dc.contributor.authorLalitha, K.V.
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-17T08:26:25Z
dc.date.available2017-02-17T08:26:25Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractStaphylococcus aureus is a pathogen known to cause hospital, community acquired and foodborne illness with varying susceptibility to antibiotics. The selective pressure due to the use of antibiotics along with horizontal and vertical gene transfer has resulted in the evolution of multidrug resistant S. aureus. The purpose of the study was to determine the antibiotic resistance pattern in S. aureus isolated from seafood of Kerala, India. One hundred and thirty three S. aureus isolates obtained during 2012 to 2015 were included in this study. Antibiotic susceptibility testing was performed with a set of 20 antibiotics representing eleven classes of antibiotics by standard disk diffusion assay. The study revealed that 90.9% of the S. aureus isolates were resistant to at least one class of antibiotics. Resistance was found among 33.8, 27.8, 17.3, 6.8, 3.8, 0.7 and 0.7% isolates to one, two, three, four, five, six and eight classes of antibiotics respectively. Multidrug resistance was found in 29.3% of the S. aureus isolates with resistance to antibiotics ranging from 3 to 8 classes of antibiotics. The study reveals that S. aureus isolates were sensitive to aminoglycosides and phenicols.en_US
dc.identifier.citationFiishery Technology 2016:53(3), 232-237en_US
dc.identifier.issn0015-3001
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2474
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSociety of Fisheries Technologists(India)en_US
dc.subjectStaphylococcus aureusen_US
dc.subjectmultidrug resistanceen_US
dc.subjectAntimicrobial susceptibility testingen_US
dc.subjectCLSIen_US
dc.titleAntibiotic Resistance Pattern of Staphylococcus aureus Isolated from Seafooden_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
Files
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Antibiotic Resistance pattern.pdf
Size:
329.95 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.71 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download
Collections
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles (National) (M,F&B)
FT Vol.53(3)