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Diversity of enterococcal species and characterization of high-level aminoglycoside resistant enterococci of samples of wastewater and surface water in Tunisia.
The Science of the total environment - 15 Oct 2015
Ben Said Leila, Klibi Naouel, Lozano Carmen, Dziri Raoudha, Ben Slama Karim, Boudabous Abdellatif, Torres Carmen
Abstract excerpt
One hundred-fourteen samples of wastewater (n=64) and surface-water (n=50) were inoculated in Slanetz-Bartley agar plates supplemented or not with gentamicin (SB-Gen and SB plates, respectively) for enterococci recovery. Enterococci were obtained from 75% of tested samples in SB media (72% in wastewater; 78% in surface-water), and 85 enterococcal isolates (one/positive-sample) were obtained. Enterococcus faecium...
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