Table 1. Antibiotic resistance of single randomly selected E. coli isolates from bird fecal samples.
Antibiotic | Colony by feeding site | |
“City Dump” (n = 75) | “Offshore” (n = 78) | |
Tetracycline | 27 | 32 |
Ampicillin | 19 | 19 |
Streptomycin | 15 | 14 |
Chloramphenicol | 2 | 8 |
Nalidixic acid | 2 | 2 |
Cefadroxil1 | 4 | 0 |
Cefadroxil resembles cefalexin and is used to screen for ESBLs as part of the recommendations by the SRGA.