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Relatedness of Escherichia coli strains with different susceptibility phenotypes isolated from swine feces during ampicillin treatment.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 May 2009
Bibbal D, Dupouy V, Prère M F, Toutain P L, Bousquet-Mélou A
Abstract excerpt
The aim of this study was to examine the dynamics of the development of resistance in fecal Escherichia coli populations during treatment with ampicillin for 7 days in pigs. Before treatment, only 6% of the isolates were ampicillin resistant, whereas more than 90% of the isolates were resistant after days 4 and 7 of treatment. Ampicillin-resistant E. coli isolates were mainly multiresistant, and 53% of the...
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