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• Title: Biological Sciences Poster Abstracts.
• Author : Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science
• Release Date : January 01, 2008
• Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 186 KB

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ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY AND RESISTANCE SURVEY AMONG BACTERIA ISOLATED FROM AEROBIC DIGEST FROM A WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT. R, Glynn Stephens and Lisa Ann Blankinship, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Troy University, Troy, AL 36082. Antibiotic resistance is becoming more prevalent due to the common usages of antibiotics. Pharmaceutical companies are continuously developing new drugs to compensate for this resistance. Therapy regimes are becoming more complicated for physicians to try to combat infections. Bacteria are becoming more and more effective in surviving these treatments via their many mechanisms of DNA transfer and uptake. In wastewater treatment plants, these mechanisms are put to their most efficient use and may include transformation, transduction, and conjugation. Surveillance of resistance patterns has shown that wastewater treatments facilities are an opportune location for the transmission of antibiotic resistance. This project investigated the resistance of isolates from aerobic digest collected from the Five Mile Creek Wastewater Treatment facility in Birmingham, AL. Seventeen isolates were tested for their susceptibility to thirteen antibiotics. Influent to the aerobic digester and effluent from the aerobic digester was also tested for resistance.

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