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Article: Antibiotic Resistance in Escherichia coli from Nigerian Students, 1986-1998.(Statistical Data Included)
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- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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We tested 758 fecal Escherichia coli isolates, recovered from Nigerian students in 1986, 1988, 1990, 1994, and 1998, for susceptibility to seven antimicrobial drugs. The prevalences of strains resistant to tetracycline, ampicillin, chloramphenicol, and streptomycin were 9% to 35% in 1986 and 56% to 100% in 1998. These findings demonstrate that resistance gene reservoirs are increasing in healthy persons.
Resistance to antibiotics is highly prevalent in bacterial isolates worldwide, particularly in developing countries (1-4). Routine monitoring of antibiotic resistance provides data for antibiotic therapy and resistance control (5). Normal intestinal flora are a ...