Antibiotic Susceptibility and Heavy Metal Tolerance Pattern of Serratia Marcescens Isolated From Soil and Water

Abstract

The antibiotic and metal tolerance patterns of Serratia marcescens strains isolated from soil and water around the Sangam region of Allahabad were obtained. Using the standard minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) for each antibiotic respectively, the Kirby-Bauer disc-diffusion method was used to obtain antibiotic resistance patterns of the Serratia strains and the MIC of the metals -chromium, cadmium, cobalt, copper, lead and nickel for each of the strains were also obtained. Plasmid curing was carried out for specific antibiotic and metal resistances to ascertain plasmid-borne transfer of resistance genes. Results obtained showed that Multi-drug resistant (MDR) strains of Serratia were resistant to certain metals as well suggesting specific metal-antibiotic resistant gene patterns in the different strains. Journal of Bioremediation & Biodegradation

Isolation and characterization of heavy metal tolerant bacteria from Panteka stream, Kaduna, Nigeria and their potential for bioremediation

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Heavy Metals and Antibiotics Susceptibility Profiles of <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> Isolated from Several Points Receiving Daily Input from the Bodija Abattoir in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

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“…Moreover, these bacterial strains capable of metabolizing xenobiotics develop co-resistance to one or more antibiotics (Owolabi, & Hekeu, 2014;Thompson, Maani, Lindell, King, & McArthur, 2007), becoming reservoirs of antibiotic resistance genes (Manaia et al, 2016). There are reports in the scientific literature which correlate the ability of strains of S. marcescens, recognized as opportunistic pathogen, to resist the presence of heavy metals and biocides, with concomitant multiresistance to antibiotics (Jafarzade, Mohamad, Usup, & Ahmad, 2012;Nageswaran, Ramteke, Verma, & Pandey, 2012). However, the present study correlates the metabolic capacity of the AMS212 S. marcescens strain to degrade petroleum, expressing multiresistance to four different antibiotics, including the ESBL.…”