Krushna Chandra Sahoo|Ashok J. Tamhankar|Soumyakanta Sahoo|Priyadarshi Soumyaranjan Sahu|Senia Rosales-Klintz|Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg
Geographical Variation in Antibiotic-Resistant Escherichia coli Isolates from Stool, Cow-Dung and Drinking Water
Karolinska Institutet|Ruxmaniben Deepchand Gardi Medical College|KIIT University|Institute of Medical Sciences|Karolinska Institutet|Karolinska Institutet
little information available relationships biophysical environment antibiotic resistancethis study conducted investigate antibiotic resistance pattern escherichia coli isolated child stool samples cowdung drinking water noncoastal 230 households coastal 187 households regions odisha indiasusceptibility testing e coli isolates n 696 following antibiotics tetracycline ampicillinsulbactam cefuroxime cefotaxime cefixime cotrimoxazole amikacin ciprofloxacin norfloxacin nalidixic acid performed disk diffusion methodciprofloxacin minimum inhibitory concentration mic values determined ciprofloxacinresistant isolates n 83resistance least one antibiotic detected 90 e coli isolatesciprofloxacin mic values ranged 8 32 gmlthe odds ratio resistance e coli isolates open access childrens stool 31 95 ci 118801cowdung 36 95 ci 159803p 0002 drinking water 38 95 ci 1001444p 0049 higher noncoastal compared coastal regionsimilarly coresistance cowdung 25 95 ci 139437p 0002 drinking water 32 95 ci 136741p 0008 well multiresistance cowdung 22 95 ci 112434p 0022 drinking water 27 95 ci 106707p 0036 also higher noncoastal compared coastal region