Antibiotic resistance profiles ofPseudomonas aeruginosaisolated from various Greek aquatic environments

Metagenomic Frameworks for Monitoring Antibiotic Resistance in Aquatic Environments

BACKGROUND High-throughput genomic technologies offer new approaches for environmental health monitoring, including metagenomic surveillance of antibiotic resistance determinants (ARDs). Although natural environments serve as reservoirs for antibiotic resistance genes that can be transferred to pathogenic and human commensal bacteria, monitoring of these determinants has been infrequent and inc...

Antibiotic Resistance in Aquatic Environments of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Deliberations on the impact of antibiotic contamination on dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes in aquatic environments

............................................................................. V Summary in Swedish (Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning)............ VII List of papers....................................................................... IX Abbreviations....................................................................... X History of antibiotics and the emergence of resistance..................

Antibiotic Resistance of Enterobacteriaceae Isolated from The Domestic Food Related Environments

Background: Multidrug resistant Enterobacteriaceae which was confined to the hospital environments is now emerging in the domestic food related environments as well. The main objective of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of antibiotic resistant Enterobacteriaceae in the domestic food related environments.  Methods: Resistance to ampicillin, chloramphenicol, ...

Antibiotic resistance profiles of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates containing virulence genes

Background: A most common opportunistic pathogen, Pseudomonas aeruginosa is present in both humans and animals and responsible for various nosocomial infections and healthcare settings related infections. Different virulence genes like; oprL (membrane lipoprotein L) and toxA (exotoxin A i.e. ETA) in P. aeruginosa, assist in its pathogenicity, toxicity and contribute to high antibiotic resistanc...