CHANGES IN PREVALENCE AND SUSCEPTIBILITY OF OBLIGATE ANAEROBES IN CLINICAL VETERINARY PRACTICE
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 186 (10) , 1086-1089
Abstract
Of 3133 clinical specimens obtained from domestic animals, 26% contained species of bacteria that were obligate anaerobes. Members of the genera Bacteroides, Fusobacterium and Peptostreptococcus accounted for 77% of the isolates. On the average, 2 species of obligate anaerobes were found in each specimen, usually admixed with facultatively anaerobic bacteria. Of those specimens containing an obligate anaerobe, 20% contained 1 isolate that was resistant to penicillin, ampicillin and cephalothin. These resistant isolates belonged to the genus Bacteroides, the most common being B. fragilis. Approximately 1/3 of these penicillin-resistant isolates was resistant to tetracycline as well. All isolates were susceptible to chloramphenicol, tetracycline (excluding penicillin-resistant Bacteroides), metronidazole and clindamycin.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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