Antimicrobial susceptibility in Escherichia coli of human and avian origin - A comparison of wild-type distributions

Abstract

In the present study, the antimicrobial susceptibilities of 97 Escherichia coli isolates from birds, and 100 clinical isolates from blood cultures, were determined by disk diffusion. The wild-type distributions were defined by the normalized resistance interpretation method. It is shown that the avian and clinical inhibition zone diameter distributions of wild-type E. coli are indistinguishable. © 2009 The Authors Journal compilation © 2009 European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.