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Water SA

versión On-line ISSN 1816-7950
versión impresa ISSN 0378-4738

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SOGE, Olusegun O et al. Low prevalence of antibiotic-resistant gram-negative bacteria isolated from rural south-western Ugandan groundwater. Water SA [online]. 2009, vol.35, n.3, pp.343-347. ISSN 1816-7950.

The objective of this study was to determine antibiotic resistance patterns and specific resistance genes in Gram-negative enteric bacteria recovered from 42 different drinking water sources servicing 2 rural villages in south-western Uganda. These water sites were prone to contamination by both human and cattle activity. Of the 52 isolates examined, 26 carried antibiotic resistance genes with 25 being ampicillin resistant, 21 carrying the blaTEM gene, and no isolate carrying genes coding for extended-spectrum β−lactamases. Twelve isolates were tetracycline resistant and these bacteria carried between 1 and 3 different tet genes, with the tet(A) gene the most common. Six isolates carried the macrolide resistance mef(A) and/or the macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B resistance erm(B) genes. Four isolates carried the sul1 gene, and 4 isolates carried the sul1 and int1 genes indicating the presence of Class 1 integrons. The Ugandan isolates in this study had lower than expected carriage rates of antibiotic and multi-drug resistance genes, carriage of Class 1 integrons and lacked genes coding for extended-spectrum β−lactamases as compared to antibiotic resistance carriage in clinical African isolates.

Palabras clave : drinking water; antibiotic resistance; resistance genes; Gram-negative; conjugal transfer.

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