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Table 10. Number of antimicrobial classes in resistance patterns of Salmonella isolates from chickens, by serovar; Abattoir Surveillance, 2009

Serovar Number (%) of isolates Number of isolates by number of antimicrobial classes in the resistance pattern Number of isolates resistant by antimicrobial class and antimicrobial
Aminoglycosides β-lactams Folate pathways inhibitors Phenicols Quinolones Tetracyclines
  1 2–3 4–5 6 AMK GEN KAN STR AMP AMC CRO FOX TIO SSS SXT CHL CIP NAL TET
Kentucky 95 (41.3) 16 9 69 1         70 41 40 40 24 40         1 71
Heidelberg 50 (21.7) 23 18 9       2   8 27 10 10 9 10 2          
Enteritidis 44 (19.1) 43 1             1                      
Hadar 9 (3.9) 2 1 6           7                     6
Typhimurium 6 (2.6) 5     1         1 1         1   1     1
Less common serovars 26 (11.3) 17 1 8       1 3 7 3 3 3 3 3 4         7
Total 230 (100) 106 30 92 2     3 3 94 72 53 53 36 53 7   1   1 85

Serovars represented by less than 2% of isolates were classified as “Less common serovars”.

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