TY  - GEN
T1  - Antibiotic resistance and plasmid carriage among Escherichia coli isolates from chicken meat in Malaysia
A1  - Myaing, Tin Tin
LA  - English
PB  - Springer
YR  - 2003
UL  - http://discoverylib.upm.edu.my/discovery/Record/oai:psasir.upm.edu.my:9370
AB  - Escherichia coli isolates from 131 raw chicken meat samples were tested for susceptibility to 12 antibiotics. Plasmids were isolated from many samples and their DNA molecular weight calculated. An 81.7% plasmid occurrence rate was observed among the isolates, ranging from 0 to 8 in number and with sizes from 1.2 to 118.6 MDa. Plasmids were detected in 93.8% of E. coli isolates resistant to all 12 antibiotics, and in 90.5% of E. coli isolates resistant to 11. Three (2.8%) isolates harboured 8 plasmids and were resistant to all 12 antibiotics. Antibiotic resistant genes in bacteria are usually carried in extrachromosomal DNA and it is postulated that E. coli with a high number of plasmids possesses wider resistance to antibiotics.
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