“…A similar scenario unfolded in Finland when trimethoprim was withdrawn from use for the treatment of UTI ( Heikkila et al, 1990 ). In the Enterobacteriaceae, resistance to sulfonamides, trimethoprim, ampicillin, tetracycline, and fluoroquinolones remains high ( Enne et al, 2001 ; Nozarian and Abdollahi, 2015 ; Paniagua-Contreras et al, 2015 ; Uzun et al, 2015 ; Yahiaoui et al, 2015 ). Carriage rates for sul1 , sul2 , or sul3 genes in E. coli isolated from retail meat, livestock, healthy humans, and humans with clinical disease also remains a problem ( Enne et al, 2001 ; Blahna et al, 2006 ; Frank et al, 2007 ; Altalhi et al, 2010 ; Bailey et al, 2010 ; Saenz et al, 2010 ; Vogt et al, 2014 ; Yahiaoui et al, 2015 ).…”