Abstract

Barnali Sarma, Celin Acharya and S. R. Joshi*

Pseudomonads is a versatile and cosmopolitan bacterial group that can occur in metal contaminated as well as clinical environment and many of them possess the ability to proliferate resistance to bacteria from their own or other group. Antibiotic resistance in clinical bacteria is a growing concern for mankind. Various reports have shown dual resistance of pseudomonads to metal and antibiotic involving different inheritable or non-inheritable mechanisms like co-resistance, cross-resistance, co-regulation, biofilm production, persistence and swarming. Increasing rate of metal pollutant in environment contributed by various anthropogenic activities may constantly provide a selective pressure in proliferation of antibiotic resistance among bacteria.