Enzymatic Activity and Horizontal Gene Transfer of Heavy Metals and Antibiotic Resistant Proteus vulgaris from Hospital Wastewater: An Insight

Table 3

Metal resistance patterns in P. vulgaris (n = 50) from the entire sampling site.

No. of metals	Resistance pattern	Isolates	Percentage (%)	MMR index
2	Ni, Zn	1	6	0.09
	Cr, Ni	2
3	Cr, Ni, Zn	1	2	0.42
4	Hg, Cr, Ni, Zn	1	24	0.04
	Cr, Cu, Ni, Zn	8
	Cr, Cu, Cd, Zn	1
	Cu, Ni, Cd, Zn	1
	Cr, Ni, Cd, Zn	1
5	Co, Cr, Cu, Ni, Zn	6	24	0.05
	Co. Cr, Cu, Ni, Cd	1
	Hg, Co, Cr, Cu, Ni,	1
	Hg, Co, Cr, Ni, Zn	2
	Cr, Cu, Ni, Cd, Zn	2
6	Co, Cr, Cu, Ni, Cd, Zn	9	40	0.04
	Hg, Co, Cr, Cu, Ni, Zn	5
	Hg, Cr, Cu, Ni, Cd, Zn	6
7	Hg, Co, Cr, Cu, Ni, Cd, Zn	2	4	0.5

Cr = chromium, Cd = cadmium, Co = cobalt, Hg = mercury, Cu = copper, Zn = zinc, Ni = nickel.