Aims: This study set out to help define the role of the poultry environment as a reservoir of drug resistant bacteria in Nigeria. Introduction: The poultry environment has been acclaimed as a potential source of antimicrobial resistant bacteria but information is lacking in Niger...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/28601
Aims: Efflux pumps, particularly resistance-nodulation-division family such as Mex pumps in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, are the major contributors to multidrug resistance in Gram-negative bacteria. Since the well-known efflux pump inhibitor (EPI), phenylalanine-arginine β-naphthylami...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/27374
Aim: To examine the bacteriological quality and prevalence of multidrug resistant (MDR) Gram-negative bacteria in surface and underground domestic water sources in Ibadan. Study Design: Descriptive cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Collection of water samples wa...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/27445
Multiple drug resistance bacteria in solid and liquid wastes in public and private hospitals were investigated between December, 2013 and February, 2014. Solid and liquid wastes were collected from discharged sites from different wards of both hospital environments. The antibioti...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/17384
Aims: This study aims to determine prevalence of Salmonella in shellfish and to study their resistance to antibiotics. Samples: Three species of shellfish consisted of cockles, clams and mussels were sampled monthly in six sites during two years 2008 and 2012. Methodology: As man...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/18501
Aims: Bacterial resistance to antibiotics has become a major public health concern, the aim was to study bacterial resistance to antibiotics in bacteria isolated from Aiba water sampled from 4 locations in 3 different months Place and Duration of Study: Water samples were collect...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/17924
Aims: This research was carried out to detect the content and distribution of class 1 integrons in multidrug resistant Salmonella isolates. Materials and Methods: Eighty four clinical isolates of Salmonella serovars were subjected to molecular detection of class 1 integrons follo...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/9303
Aim: The study was carried out to investigate the prevalence of multidrug resistant Enterobacteriaceae (MDRE), their susceptibility to carbapenems and tigecycline, and subsequently carbapenemase producers among clinical isolates of Enterobacteriaceae. Study Design: Investigative...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/9719
Flávia Abreu Felsemburgh, Juliane Siqueira-Francisco, Morgana Teixeira Lima Castelo Branco, Marcus Vinicius Magalhães de Almeida, Antônio Ferreira-Pereira & Lycia de Brito-Gitirana·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2013
Aims: Considering the well known biological effects of secretion of cutaneous glands in anurans and that Pdr5p belongs to the ATB-Binding Cassette (ABC) superfamily of membrane transporters, which efflux a large variety of xenobiotic compounds, and play an important role in the m...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/4066
Aims: To detect ESBL-producing E. coli isolates and the genes underlying their resistance to β-lactams and sulfamethoxazole. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Jordan University of Science & Technology, Irbid 22110, Jordan, between January...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2012/1360