360258

Phenotypic and genotypic study of biofilm formation in multi-drug resistance Enterobacter species in Al-Najaf province, Iraq

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Human Microbial Interactions
Medical Microbiology
Microbial Ecology

Abstract

he objective of this work was to isolate and identify Enterobacter spp. responsible for various clinical infections in individuals, and to assess their ability to form biofilms. This study also aimed to detect bacterial taxa with antibiotic resistance. Recovered Enterobacter spp showed resistance to many antibiotics out of 17 examined antibiotics based on antibiotic susceptibility test. This study revealed that all isolated Enterobacter spp. under investigation could produce strong biofilms when assessed by using the tissue culture plate technique, whereas the majority of bacteria were able to do so using the Congo red agar method. Our results revealed that bacterial isolates that formed biofilms exhibited greater antibiotic resistance compared to bacterial isolates that did not develop biofilms. Analysis of biofilm-associated genes revealed that among the 21 isolates of Enterobacter spp., 47.6% exhibited the fliC-d gene, whereas 42.9% were characterised by the csgD gene.

DOI

10.21608/mb.2024.360258

Keywords

biofilm formation, MDR, Enterobacter spp, csgD, fliC-d

Authors

First Name

Afrah

Last Name

Hassan

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Kufa, Najaf, Iraq.

Email

alkhalidyfaroha@gmail.com

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First Name

Zahraa

Last Name

Motaweq

MiddleName

Y.

Affiliation

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Kufa, Najaf, Iraq.

Email

zahraa.mutawak@uokufa.edu.iq

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Volume

9

Article Issue

1

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47475

Issue Date

2024-06-01

Receive Date

2024-05-01

Publish Date

2024-06-17

Page Start

83

Page End

91

Print ISSN

2357-0326

Online ISSN

2357-0334

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https://mb.journals.ekb.eg/article_360258.html

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360,258

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502

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Publication Title

Microbial Biosystems

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https://mb.journals.ekb.eg/

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Phenotypic and genotypic study of biofilm formation in multi-drug resistance Enterobacter species in Al-Najaf province, Iraq

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Article

Created At

23 Dec 2024