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Tertiary hospital sewage as reservoir of bacteria expressing MDR phenotype in Brazil.
Brazilian journal of biology = Revista brasleira de biologia - 1 Jan 2021
Zagui G S, Tonani K A A, Fregonesi B M, Machado G P, Silva T V, Andrade L N, Andrade D, Segura-Muñoz S I
Abstract excerpt
High doses of antibiotics used in hospitals can affect the microbial composition of sewers, selecting resistant bacteria. In this sense, we evaluated the antibiotic resistance profile and the multiresistant phenotype of bacteria isolated in sewage from a tertiary hospital in the interior São Paulo state, Brazil. For bacteria isolation, 10 µL of sewage samples were sown in selective culture media and the isolates...
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