PAMUK, Şebnem Afyon Kocatepe University - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine - Department of Food Hygiene and Technology, Turkey , ŞEKER, Esra Afyon Kocatepe University - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine - Department of Microbiology, Turkey , YILDIRIM, Yeliz Erciyes University - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine - Department of Food Hygiene and Technology, Turkey

Antibiotic resistance of coagulase negative Staphylococci isolated from buffalo milk and some milk products

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The aim of this study was to determine the antibiotic resistance of coagulasenegative staphylococci (CNS) isolated from raw buffalo milk, tulum cheese and clotted cream in Afyonkarahisar province of Western Turkey. A total of 210 samples were examined between February 2008 and August 2009; of the samples examined 70 were raw buffalo milk, 70 tulum cheeses, and 70 clotted creams. Thirty four isolates (16.2%) obtained from 210 samples were detected as CNS. Of these isolates 12 (35.3%) were recovered from raw buffalo milk, 14 (41.2%) from tulum cheese and 8 (23.5%) from clotted cream. Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion method was used to detect the antibiotic resistance of CNS isolatedfrom samples according to the standards of Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute. Erythromycin was found to be the least effective antibiotic as 79.4% of CNS isolates recovered from raw buffalo milk, tulum cheese and clotted cream samples were resistant to this drug, followed by amikacin (50%), cefalotine (44.1%), penicillin (38.2%), neomycin (35.3%), streptomycin (35.3%), gentamicin (32.4%) and oxacillin (29.4%). Manda

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Antimicrobial resistance , Buffalo milk , Cheese , Clotted cream , Coagulase , negative staphylococci

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