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<article-title>Antibiotic Multiresistance of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Isolated from Hospital Effluent Water</article-title>
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<author>Fatih Matyar</author>

<aff>Cukurova University, Turkey</aff>

	
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<title>ABSTRACT</title>
<p>The present study was carried out to assess the isolation and determination level of antibiotic resistance
patterns of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from the hospital effluent water. A total of 72 P. aeruginosa
strains was isolated from the hospital sewages. The resistance of P. aeruginosa isolates to 10 different
antibiotics was investigated by agar diffusion method. Results revealed a high incidence of resistance to
ampicillin (100.0%), nitrofurantoin (100.0%), nalidixic acid (100.0%) and tetracycline (100.0%), and a
low incidence of resistance to meropenem (1.4%) and amikacin (5.6%). In the other hand, all of the
isolates found sensitive to imipenem. In this study the multiple antibiotic resistance (MAR) index range
found very high (from 0.6 to 0.8). Results show that the hospital effluent water has an important amount
of antibiotic multi-resistant P. aeruginosa strains and these bacteria may result in a potential risk for
environment.</p>
<p><italic>Keywords: </italic>Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Antibiotic resistance, Hospital sewage, Environment.</p>
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