| Title | Sensitivity to 14 antibiotics of Escherichia coli isolated from sewage in greater Athens area | |
| Authors | Henriette Kourti¹, George Louris¹, George Liodiris² and John Papavassiliou¹
1. Department of Microbiology, University of Athens, P.O. Box 8540, 10010, Athens, Greece 2. Special Department of Public Works Ministry of Physical Planning, Environment and Public Works |
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| Citation | Kourti, E., Louris, G., Liodiris, G., Papavassiliou, J.: Sensitivity to 14 antibiotics of Escherichia coli isolated from sewage in greater Athens area, Epitheorese Klin. Farmakol. Farmakokinet. 4(2): 118-121 (1990) | |
| Publication Date | Received for publication: January 15, 1990
Accepted for publication: June 20, 1990 |
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| Full Text Language | English | |
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| Keywords | Escherichia coli, sensitivity to antibiotics, sewage of greater Athens. | |
| Other Terms | review article | |
| Summary | Ten samples of sewage were examined during a 5 months period (automn and winter 1988-89). Samples were taken from the sewage main collector of greater Athens (ca. 4 million population). The sewage contains wastes from houses: hospitals, industries, slaughterhouses and the rainfalls. From each specimen 5-15 well isolated colonies of E. coli were selected and transferred to nutrient broth. Cultures were tested for sensitivity to antibiotics with the Bauer-Kirby method. The following frequencies of resistance were observed: Streptomycin (S) 23, ampicillin (Amp) 20, tetracycline (Te) 18, carbenicillin (Car) 15, nalidixic acid (NA) 14, cephalothin (CF) 8, cephalortdine (CD) 7, trimethoprim + sulfamethoxazole (SCT) 5, tobramycin (Tob) 3, gentamycin (CN) 1, amicacin (AIC) 1, chloramphenicol (C) 1: all strains were sensitive to cefotaxime (CTX) and to norfloxacin (Nor), 9 strains were resistant to 1 antibiotic, 6 to 2, 9 to 3, 1 to 4 and 5 to 5. Although the majority of the strains were sensitive to the 14 antibiotics and the occurrence of multiresistant to strains was low, the contamination of the environment with multiresistant strains cannot be excluded. Similar patterns of sensitivity or resistance of E. coli were found in sea waters | |
| References | 1. Bauer, A.W., Kirby, W.M.H., Sherris, J.C., Truck, M.: Antibiotic susceptibility testing by a standardised single disc method. J. Clin. Pathol. 45: 483 (1966)
2. Ministry of Physical Planning, Environment and Public Works. A Report. Characteristics of sewage of the central collector (in Greek, by C. Hatzichristidi and D. Spala), February, 1983 3. Papavassiliou, J.: The rapid identification of Escherichia coli I by the production at 44°C of both indole and gas lactose. J. Appl. Bactenol. 21: 104 (1958) |
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