National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The resistance of bacteria to antibiotics is an emerging public health concern due to antibiotics being widely available and used without proper prescription. The introduction of heavy metals in various forms in the environment may cause considerable changes in the structure and function of microbial communities. In the last decade, several studies reported that the resistance of bacteria to antibiotics can occur in the environment because of multidrug resistance or cross-resistance to metals and co-regulation of airway resistance. The aim of this study is to determine the antimicrobial resistance profile patterns to 15 antibiotics and heavy metals (Zn+2, Cu+2 and Cd+2) by Pantoeaagglomerans bacteria. The (MIC) of the heavy metals was varied from 200 µg /mL to 2200 µg/mL. The results showed that the bacteria were resistant to Zn+2, Cu+2 and Cd+2, considering the MIC values compared with the strain Escherichia coli K-12 used as control. P. agglomeransshowed an antibiotic profile of resistance to Cefepime, Cefotaxime, Cefpodoxime, Clindamycin, and Amikacin, and sensitivity to Penicillin, and other antibiotics, thus suggesting that genetically-determined systems for resistance to toxic heavy metals was observed.
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