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Revista argentina de microbiología

Print version ISSN 0325-7541On-line version ISSN 1851-7617

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GALLARDO, Adriana A et al. Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis biovar ovis: Evaluation of antibiotics susceptibility in vitro. Rev. argent. microbiol. [online]. 2019, vol.51, n.4, pp.334-338. ISSN 0325-7541.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ram.2018.12.001.

The aims of this work were to study the antibiotic susceptibility in Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis isolated from small ruminants and to determine the presence of integrons that contain resistance genes. Fifteen isolates of different sources were analysed using the diffusion and the dilution methods. When the diffusion method was performed, amoxicillin-clavulanic, ampicillin, cefotaxime, cefoxitin, ciprofloxacin, chloramphenicol, erythromycin, streptomycin, gentamicin, imipenem, kanamycin, norfloxacin, penicillin, rifampicin, tetracycline, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and vancomycin were effective against the 100% of isolates, while amikacin showed variable results. The isolates that were able to grow with amikacin, were studied in relation to the presence of integron class 1. The result was negative, suggesting the absence of integron. Using dilution method, the antibiotics belonging to the cephalosporin, glycopeptide, macrolide, quinolone, and tetracycline groups were the most active ones for the C. pseudotuberculosis biovar ovis isolates. Less activity of p-lactam and aminoglycosides were observed. There was no observation of variability in the antibiotic patterns in the strains coming from different sources.

Keywords : Lymphadenitis caseosa; Antibiotics; Diffusion and dilution method; Integrons; Small ruminant.

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