Volume 10, Number 6—June 2004
Research
Antimicrobial Resistance among Campylobacter Strains, United States, 1997–2001
Table 4
Antimicrobial agent | % Resistant |
|||
---|---|---|---|---|
C. jejuni (n = 62) | C. coli (n = 16) | Othera (n = 2) | ||
Azithromycin |
6 |
0 |
0 |
|
Chloramphenicol |
0 |
0 |
50 |
|
Ciprofloxacin |
24 |
19 |
50 |
|
Clindamycin |
5 |
0 |
0 |
|
Erythromycin |
6 |
0 |
0 |
|
Gentamicin |
0 |
6 |
0 |
|
Nalidixic acid |
29 |
37 |
50 |
|
Tetracycline | 69 | 50 | 50 |
aOne isolate was undetermined (i.e., hippurate-negative Campylobacter that could not be further speciated by 16S polymerase chain reaction study), and one isolate was an unknown Campylobacter that could not be further characterized).
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