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Antibiotic resistance profiles of Campylobacter species in the South Africa private health care sector
Author(s) -
Christiana O. Shobo,
Linda A. Bester,
Sooraj Baijnath,
Anou M. Somboro,
Abdool Kader Cassim Peer,
Sabiha Y. Essack
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the journal of infection in developing countries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.322
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 2036-6590
pISSN - 1972-2680
DOI - 10.3855/jidc.8165
Subject(s) - antibiotic resistance , campylobacter , antibiotics , resistance (ecology) , private sector , health care , medicine , environmental health , microbiology and biotechnology , economic growth , biology , bacteria , ecology , economics , genetics
There is a dearth of surveillance data on clinical Campylobacter in South Africa, particularly in the private healthcare environment. We investigated the prevalence of resistance to first-line antibiotics used to treat campylobacterioses in clinical Campylobacter isolates from a private pathology laboratory.

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