Aim: The present study was conducted to evaluate the occurrence of bacterial respiratory pathogens, particularly members of the family Pasteurellaceae in healthy domestic goats in Grenada, and to determine the antimicrobial susceptibility of the predominant species. Study Design:...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/21925
Victor A. Amadi, Harry Hariharan, Keshaw Tiwari, Vanessa Matthew-Belmar, Jisun S. Haan, Azad Singh, Sunil Kumar Mor, Sagar M. Goyal & Ravindra Sharma·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2018
Aim: To identify the sequence types (STs) of Campylobacter from indigenous chickens in Grenada and compare the results to other animals in Grenada and other countries from previous published studies. Study Design: Thermotolerant Campylobacter spp are the leading cause of human ga...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2017/38676
Aim: To evaluate the prevalence of aerobic bacteria associated with the intestine and hepatopancreas of blue land crab and the susceptibility of the bacteria to a panel of antimicrobials that included some drugs used for the treatment of bacterial infections in the human and vete...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/13620
Victor A. Amadi, Ulrike Zieger, Ozioma A. Onyegbule, Vanessa Matthew-Belmar, Ravindra Sharma & Harry Hariharan·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2015
Aim: To determine the occurrence of the E. coli including the O157:H7 serotype in mongooses and their antimicrobial drug resistance in Grenada. Study Design: Experimental based study of feces of mongooses captured from six parishes of Grenada from April 2011 to March 2013 during...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/18143
Aim: To determine the antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of E. coli isolates of porcine origin in Grenada, West Indies. Study Design: During the period of May to July, 2014, rectal swab samples were collected from pigs of six weeks to 12 week of age, from randomly selected sma...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/14071
Victor A. Amadi, Estefania Avendano, Ozioma A. Onyegbule, Zachary Pearl, Stratton Graeme, Ravindra Sharma & Harry Hariharan·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2015
Aim: To determine: the occurrence of Escherichia coli including the O157:H7 serotype in feces of healthy goats in 10 randomly selected farms in Grenada and the antimicrobial drug resistance in E. coli isolated from feces of the tested goats. Study Design: During the period of May...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/17129
Ravindra Sharma, Keshaw Tiwari, Vanessa Mathew Belmar, Sunil Kumar, Sagar M. Goyal, Victor A. Amadi, Natalie Watson & Harry Hariharan·Microbiology Research Journal International·2015
Aim: This study was carried out to assess the prevalence of Campylobacter spp. in free range chickens in Grenada, West Indies and to determine the antimicrobial susceptibility of isolates. Study Design: Cloacal swabs were collected from 315 free range chickens from randomly selec...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/21741
Ravindra Sharma, Keshaw Tiwari, Gitanjali Arya, Victor Amadi, Darnell Blackman, Nicholas Markette, Tomer Shua-Haim, Roxanne Nicholas-Thomas & Harry Hariharan·Microbiology Research Journal International·2018
Aim: The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence of Salmonella species and to determine the antimicrobial susceptibility of isolates in brown rats (R. norvegicus) from two parishes (St. George and St David) of Grenada, West Indies. Study Design: Salmonella spp. was...
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Research Article10.9734/MRJI/2018/44563