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The antimicrobial susceptibility characteristics of Cronobacter sakazakii in comparison to other members of the Enterobacteriaceae family

The 2nd International Malaysia-Ireland Joint Symposium on Engineering, Science and Business 2012 (IMiEJS2012) jointly organized by Universiti Malaysia Perlis and Athlone Institute of Technology in collaboration with The Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) Malaysia, Education Malaysia and Malay...

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Main Authors: McEvoy, Kelsey, Lipinska, Klaudia, Brady, Damien, Dr
Other Authors: kmcevoy@research.ait.ie
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) 2013
Subjects:
Antimicrobial susceptibility/resistance
Cronobacter
Disc diffusion
Online Access:http://dspace.unimap.edu.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/30756
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spelling my.unimap-307562013-12-23T03:21:00Z The antimicrobial susceptibility characteristics of Cronobacter sakazakii in comparison to other members of the Enterobacteriaceae family McEvoy, Kelsey Lipinska, Klaudia Brady, Damien, Dr kmcevoy@research.ait.ie a00144190@student.ait.ie dbrady@ait.ie Antimicrobial susceptibility/resistance Cronobacter Disc diffusion The 2nd International Malaysia-Ireland Joint Symposium on Engineering, Science and Business 2012 (IMiEJS2012) jointly organized by Universiti Malaysia Perlis and Athlone Institute of Technology in collaboration with The Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) Malaysia, Education Malaysia and Malaysia Postgraduates Student Association Ireland (MyPSI), 18th - 19th June 2012 at Putra World Trade Center (PWTC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Bacteria displaying antimicrobial resistance pose a significant global healthcare predicament. Studies have reported an association between increases in mortality, duration of hospitalisation, cost of health care and the emergence of multi-drug resistance. This study focused on identifying the antimicrobial susceptibility characteristics of an emerging foodborne pathogen, Cronobacter sakazakii, and comparing these characteristics to other similar bacteria. Two methods were used for this purpose, namely the disc diffusion method for antimicrobial susceptibility testing and the colony biofilm method. Five antibiotics, gentamicin, ampicillin, chloramphenicol, cefpodoxime and nalidixic acid, were used for the disc diffusion tests. Gentamicin and chloramphenicol were utilised in the colony biofilm experiment. It was found that Cronobacter sakazakii could not be distinguished from other members of the genus Cronobacter on the basis of antibiotic susceptibility and had similar characteristics to strains of the species Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli. Significant differences were seen between C.sakazakii and S.typhimurium in the colony biofilm experiment and were presumed to be due to intrinsic differences in the biofilm forming mechanisms of the two species. 2013-12-23T03:21:00Z 2013-12-23T03:21:00Z 2012-06-18 Working Paper p. 319 - 324 978-967-5760-11-2 http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/30756 en Proceedings of the The 2nd International Malaysia-Ireland Joint Symposium on Engineering, Science and Business 2012 (IMiEJS2012); Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)
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topic Antimicrobial susceptibility/resistance
Cronobacter
Disc diffusion
spellingShingle Antimicrobial susceptibility/resistance
Cronobacter
Disc diffusion
McEvoy, Kelsey
Lipinska, Klaudia
Brady, Damien, Dr
The antimicrobial susceptibility characteristics of Cronobacter sakazakii in comparison to other members of the Enterobacteriaceae family
description The 2nd International Malaysia-Ireland Joint Symposium on Engineering, Science and Business 2012 (IMiEJS2012) jointly organized by Universiti Malaysia Perlis and Athlone Institute of Technology in collaboration with The Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) Malaysia, Education Malaysia and Malaysia Postgraduates Student Association Ireland (MyPSI), 18th - 19th June 2012 at Putra World Trade Center (PWTC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
author2 kmcevoy@research.ait.ie
author_facet kmcevoy@research.ait.ie
McEvoy, Kelsey
Lipinska, Klaudia
Brady, Damien, Dr
format Working Paper
author McEvoy, Kelsey
Lipinska, Klaudia
Brady, Damien, Dr
author_sort McEvoy, Kelsey
title The antimicrobial susceptibility characteristics of Cronobacter sakazakii in comparison to other members of the Enterobacteriaceae family
title_short The antimicrobial susceptibility characteristics of Cronobacter sakazakii in comparison to other members of the Enterobacteriaceae family
title_full The antimicrobial susceptibility characteristics of Cronobacter sakazakii in comparison to other members of the Enterobacteriaceae family
title_fullStr The antimicrobial susceptibility characteristics of Cronobacter sakazakii in comparison to other members of the Enterobacteriaceae family
title_full_unstemmed The antimicrobial susceptibility characteristics of Cronobacter sakazakii in comparison to other members of the Enterobacteriaceae family
title_sort antimicrobial susceptibility characteristics of cronobacter sakazakii in comparison to other members of the enterobacteriaceae family
publisher Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)
publishDate 2013
url http://dspace.unimap.edu.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/30756
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