Abstract
The present study has been carried out to examine the extent of antibiotic resistance in the microbial flora of the marine environment. The antibiotic resistance of the microbes was tested by ‘disc diffusion method’. The susceptibility of marine organisms against Cefazolin, Cefixime, Gatifloxacin, Enoxabid, Urixin, Levofloxacin, Ceftizoxime, Cefpirome, Erythrocin and Cefdinir was investigated. This preliminary research suggests that the terrestrial organisms not only harbor the antibiotic resistance but also have the ability to transfer their resistance to indigenous microbial flora of marine environment.
