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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Microbiol.
Sec. Antimicrobials, Resistance and Chemotherapy
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2025.1585526
This article is part of the Research TopicMetagenomic Approach for Exploration of Antimicrobial Resistance in Uncultivated MicrobiotaView all 4 articles
Prevalence of azithromycin resistance after the COVID-19 era in clinical bacterial isolates from a tertiary care hospital in Gurugram, India
Provisionally accepted
Parbati Debnath1
Md Fahim Alam1
Manisha Khandait2
Fohad Mabood Husain3
Nayla Munawar4
Aftab Hossain Mondal5*- 1Department of Microbiology, Shree Guru Gobind Singh Tricentenary University, Gurugram, Haryana, India
- 2Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Shree Guru Gobind Singh Tricentenary University, Gurugram, Haryana, India
- 3Department of Food Science and Nutrition, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- 4Department of Chemistry, College of Science, United Arab Emirates University, AlAin, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- 5Maulana Azad College, University Of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
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The increasing prevalence of antibiotic resistance in pathogenic bacteria poses a great health care problem worldwide. Azithromycin (AZM) is a very effective macrolide antibiotic to treat many bacterial infections. But, increasing azithromycin resistance in clinical bacteria decreases the effectiveness of this vital antibiotic, which is a major concern. The primary aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of azithromycin resistance and the occurrence of mphA gene in bacteria isolated from various clinical samples in Gurugram, India. For this, 138 pure bacterial isolates were obtained from the
Keywords: azithromycin resistance, multidrug resistance, COVID-19, Clinical bacteria, mphA gene
Received: 28 Feb 2025; Accepted: 09 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Debnath, Alam, Khandait, Husain, Munawar and Mondal. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Aftab Hossain Mondal, Maulana Azad College, University Of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
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