Antibiotic Resistance Patterns of Metal-Tolerant Bacteria Isolated from an Estuary
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- 1 October 1977
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
- Vol. 12 (4) , 545-547
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.12.4.545
Abstract
Estuarine bacteria isolated on metal-containing media were also found to be antibiotic resistant; ampicillin and chloramphenicol were the antibiotics to which resistance was most common. Patterns of antibiotic resistance were found associated with a variety of taxa.Keywords
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