Research Article

Antibiotics Resistance in Escherichia coli Isolated from Livestock in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2014–2019

Table 2

The main phenotypic multidrug-resistant patterns of 165 E. coli strains were isolated from different livestock samples of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.

No. of classes of drugsPatterns of multidrug resistance (no. of isolates in this pattern)No. of total isolates (%) (n = 165)

2Ampicillin-enrofloxacin (n = 4)5 (3%)
Ampicillin-gentamicin (n = 1)
3Tetracycline-gentamicin-enrofloxacin (n = 4)17 (10.3%)
Tetracycline-co-trimoxazole-gentamicin (n = 1)
Ampicillin-tetracycline-gentamicin (n = 2)
Ampicillin-tetracycline-co-trimoxazole (n = 6)
Ampicillin-co-trimoxazole-gentamicin (n = 1)
Ampicillin-tetracycline-enrofloxacin (n = 2)
Ampicillin-gentamicin-enrofloxacin (n = 1)
4Tetracycline-co-trimoxazole-gentamicin-enrofloxacin (n = 2)47 (28.5%)
Ampicillin-co-trimoxazole-gentamicin-enrofloxacin (n = 3)
Ampicillin-tetracycline-gentamicin-enrofloxacin (n = 11)
Ampicillin-tetracycline-co-trimoxazole-enrofloxacin (n = 14)
Ampicillin-tetracycline-co-trimoxazole-gentamicin- (n = 17)
5Ampicillin-tetracycline-co-trimoxazole-gentamicin-enrofloxacin (n = 96)96 (58.2%)