1987 Volume 61 Issue 1 Pages 9-16
Three hundred and thirty-seven strains of Vibrio parahaemolyticus, that is, 207 from human feces and 130 from foods, and 22 strains of Vibrio alginolyticus from shellfishes were examined in vitro for their susceptibility to 11 antimicrobial agents; sulfonamide (SA), doxycycline (DOXY), chloramphenicol (CP), kanamycin (KM), erythromycin (EM), polymixin B (PB), ampicillin (ABPC), carbenicillin (CBPC), cephalothin (CET), latamoxef (LMOX) and nalidixic acid (NA).
The results can be summerized as follows:
1) Forty-four out of 337 V. parahaemolyticus strains (13.1%) and 20 out of 22 V. alginolyticus strains (90.9%) were drug resistant.
2) As for the resistant strains of V. parahaemolyticus, 4.2% was resistant to ABPC, 3.3% to CBPC, 0.3% to CET, 6.8% to KM and 2.1% to SA, while 86.4% of drug resistant V. alginolyticus strains was resistant to ABPC, 95.5% to CBPC, 18.2% to CET, 0% to KM and 4.5% to SA.
3) Among the one-drug resistant strains of V. parahaemolyticus, those to KM-single were the most predominant (6.2%).
4) None of the examined strains were resistant to DOXY, CP, EM, NA and LMOX.
