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In this study, fruit cocktail samples from Lahore, were screened for coliforms’ enumeration. Thirty one coliforms strains were isolated and 90%, 83% and 80% of them appeared resistant to vancomycin, oxacillin, and amoxicillin, respectively. Whereas 65% and 17% were found resistant to nalidixic acid and rifampicin, respectively. Out of these isolates 23% expressed resistance to Cr and 20 % to Cu, whereas all were susceptible to Hg and Ag. The zones of inhibition Hg and Ag were from 24 to 42mm and 12 to 22 mm, respectively. Anthropogenic and urban origin coliforms isolates could be traced due to their resistances against certain antibiotics and heavy metals resistance. The samples might have been contaminated with enteric pathogens which too had resistance to antibiotics
Javed Iqbal Qazi, Lala Rukh. (2014) Antibiotics and metals resistant coliform contents of fruit cocktail samples collected from Lahore, Punjab University Journal of Zoology, Volume 29, Issue 1.
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