Reference | T8YBAST5 (31)

The present study was conducted to detect the occurrence of beta-lactamase and biofilm-producing E. coli and Salmonella strains in apparently healthy broiler birds reared in backyard and contract farms in West Bengal, the major poultry consuming state in India.

In total, 150 cloacal swabs were collected from apparently healthy broiler birds of various age groups reared in backyard (n = 100) and contract farms (n = 50) in Howrah, Hooghly, Jalpaiguri, Darjeeling and Kolkata districts of West Bengal (India) (Table 1). The backyard farmers reared the broilers in small flocks which consist of 15–20 birds per household with occasional exposure to tetracyclines and fluoroquinolones for therapy

AST Method: Disk Diffusion

Reference explicitly reports AST breakpoints: None

Reference reports using a MIC table: None