PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN SULPHIDE GAS BY SALMONELLA TYPHI INDUCES IN VITRO RESISTANCE TO FLUOROQUINOLONES

Dr. Arijit Chatterjee

Volume : IV, Issue : X, October - 2015

PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN SULPHIDE GAS BY SALMONELLA TYPHI INDUCES IN VITRO RESISTANCE TO FLUOROQUINOLONES

Dr. Arijit Chatterjee

Abstract :

In this study, different strains of Salmonella typhi from clinical isolates of 100 patients were grown on TSI slants and on CLED agars. Then Antibiotic Susceptibility Tests were performed on Mueller Hinton Agar using antibiotic discs of fluoroquinolone group such as ciprofloxacin and ofloxacin from both TSI agar and CLED agar. It was found that, these two fluoroquinolones showed 84% resistance when AST was performed from the colony taken from TSI agar but sensitive when AST performed with the colonies from CLED agar