The Sensitivity of Psittacine Isolated Pseudomonas Strains towards Antibiotics

Avian Pseudomonas disease evolves in an acute or chronic form on cage birds and involves difficulties concerning establishing an optimal therapeutical conduct. Due to the risk of transmission to other individuals, and also to the personnel involved directly in care and treatment of ill animals, it is very important to rapidly institute an adequate therapy in order to assure the rapid limitation of pseudomonads transmission to humans or other animals. These facts constitute the base of the initialization of different studies on some different Pseudomonas spp. strains sensitivity, these being isolated from several clinical aviary cases (especially psittacines), in comparison to the different groups and types of antibiotics used currently in the treatment scheme of birds. Considering the investigations performed, the conclusion is that, even though the latest cephalosporins and fluoroquinolons have a maximum efficiency towards some of the strains, these registered also the antibiotic resistance phenomenon, in a strong proportion (41,8 to 94,12 % from the tested strains). There have been obtained constant results considering streptomycin, azithromycin, amoxicillin, associated with clavulanic acid, doxicycline and tetracycline.