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Fluoroquinolones Resistance in Campylobacter jejuni Isolated from Chicken Meat Samples | ||
| Al-Mustansiriyah Journal of Science | ||
| Article 1, Volume 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 9-16 | ||
| Authors | ||
| and Hussein H. Khanakah; Sana M. Jaballah; Saad L. Hamed; Riadh A. Dalool | ||
| Abstract | ||
| A 55 Samples of chicken meat were collected from slaughtrhouse in Baghdad city , these samples consisted of skin , breast , thigh and retail which were investigated for Campylobacter jejuni . The C. jejuni were recovered from 85.45% of the samples and 85.10% of these isolates were found to be resistant to nalidixic acid by the disc diffusion and agar dilution methods (MICs 64-256 μg /ml) , they were also resistant to the other fluoroquinolonese ; norfloxacin (MICs (128-256 μg/ml) , ofloxacin (MICs 64-128 μg/ml) , ciprpfloxacin (MICs 32-64 μg/ml), and all fourty chicken isolates of C. jejuni resistant to fluoroquinolonese were resistant to tetracycline (MICs ≥64 μg/ml) . | ||
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