Research Article
Prevalence and Antibiotic Resistance Patterns of Campylobacter spp. Isolated from Broiler Chickens in the North of Tunisia
Table 2
Percentage of resistant Campylobacter isolates.
| | Antimicrobial | C. jejuni
% (n=91) | C. coli
% (n=41) | Total
% (n=132) |
| | Ampicillin | 73.6∗ (67) | 34.1 (14) | 61.4 (81) | | Amoxicillin/acid clavulanic | 52.7 (48) | 34.1 (14) | 47.0 (62) | | Ciprofloxacin | 98.9 (90) | 100 (41) | 99.2 (131) | | Nalidixic Acid | 57.1∗ (52) | 22.0 (9) | 46.2 (61) | | Erythromycin | 100 (91) | 100 (41) | 100.0 (132) | | Tetracycline | 100 (91) | 100(41) | 100.0 (132) | | Chloramphenicol | 83.5 (76) | 100 (41) | 88.6 (117) | | Gentamycin | 14.3 (13) | 9.8 (4) | 12.9 (17) |
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higher resistance (P < 0.05) of C. jejuni compared with C. coli. |
