| Diseases like urinary tract infection, wound infections,bacteremia and other infections are mainly caused by the membersof the genus and
which are mainly either found freely in the environment or in the gastrointestinal tract of humans. We studied Fecal
carriage of ES L producing species in carrier patients.Stool samples obtained from outpatients and inpatients not
suffering from diarrhea and were cultured in CTX-MCConkey agar. Lactose negative and cefotaxime resistant
bacteria were identif ied by biochemical tests and ES Lproducing isolates were detected using Combined Test.
TEM,SHVandCTXgeneswere investigated byPCR.Total 15 (7.35%) isolates of 204 stool samples were identif ied as
ESBL producing spp. (n=4, 1.96%), spp. (n=5, 2.45%) and spp. (n=6, 2.94%). Further, amongst or of the 15 ES L producing strains, blaTEM was
the commonest genotype (86.66%), followed by blaSHV (26.66%) and blaCTX-M (20%). All isolates were resistant
to ampicillin, and cefotaxime whereas all and spp.were found to resist ceftazidime. Although
the number of ES L-producing and isolates from fecal carriers were low, but still,
they can be considered as a reservoir of TEM, SHVand CTX genes and capable to transfer these resistant bacteria to
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