Vol. 12, Issue 11 (2023)

Author(s):
Pruthvishree BS, Bhoj Raj Singh, Ravikant Agrawal, Chamaraj Pujar and Soundarya TC

Abstract:
The present study was designed to understand the tetracycline and quinolone resistance pattern of E. coli isolates from Bareilly, India. For achieving the objectives, a total of 61 E. coli isolates from clinical and non-clinical sources were used in this study. Among 61 E. coli isolates, 40.98% were resistant to doxycycline and 41.18% to ciprofloxacin. Almost 65.3% of E. coli isolates were multidrug resistant. Genotypic detection of AMR shows that 24% and 12% of E. coli isolates were positive for tetA and qnrS genes, respectively. The tetA gene was more prevalent clinically (P-0.04) whereas detection of qnrS gene was not statistically significant among isolates from clinical and non-clinical samples (P>0.05).