Antimicrobial Drug–Resistant Escherichia coli in Wild Birds and Free-range Poultry, Bangladesh
Badrul Hasan

, Linus Sandegren, Åsa Melhus, Mirva Drobni, Jorge Hernandez, Jonas Waldenström, Munirul Alam, and Björn Olsen
Author affiliations: Author affiliations: Uppsala University Department of Medical SciencesUppsala, Sweden (B. Hasan, Å. Melhus, M. Drobni, B. Olsen); Linnaeus University Centre for Ecology and Epidemiology in Microbial Model Systems, Kalmar, Sweden (B. Hasan, J. Hernandez, J. Waldenström, B. Olsen); International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh (M. Alam); Uppsala University Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala (L. Sandegren).
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Table 1
Antimicrobial drug resistance phenotypes in randomly isolated Escherichia coli from wild and domestic birds, Bangladesh
Drug |
Domestic birds, n = 52 |
Wild birds, n = 14 |
Tetracycline |
24 |
1 |
Trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole |
17 |
2 |
Ampicillin |
15 |
4 |
Cephradine |
0 |
1 |
Cefuroxime |
2 |
1 |
Cefadroxil |
0 |
1 |
Nalidixic acid |
11 |
1 |
Ciprofloxacin |
3 |
1 |
Streptomycin |
3 |
1 |
Gentamicin |
0 |
1 |
Fosfomycin |
0 |
1 |
Chloramphenicol |
4 |
0 |
Nitrofurantoin |
1 |
0 |
Tigecycline |
0 |
0 |
Mecillinam |
0 |
0 |
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