PubMed1980
A total of 66 Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from frozen bull semen were studied with regard to their sensitivity to antibiotics, sulfamides, and furazolidone with the employment of the disk method after Anderson. All strains were found resistant to penicillin, erythromycin, tetracycline, novobiocin, neomycin, kanamycin, chloramphenicol, streptomycin, oleandomycin, spectam, furazolidone, borgal, tylan, oxacillin, and sulfathiazole. Experiments are carried out to find antibiotics that would have good activity against this species of bacteria. The attention is focused on gentamycin, carbenicillin, and rimactan which inhibit the growth of these strains at a minimal suppressive concentration ranging from 1.5 up to 50 microgram/cm3. Regressive lines have been drawn for these antibiotics. It is suggested to use the graphs of the same lines in the rapid determination of the minimal suppressive concentration of gentamycin, carbenicillin, and rimactan against Ps. aeruginosa strains contaminating the semen of bulls.