A study on the prevalence of Salmonella species in Yola North Local Govt. area of Adamawa State, Nigeria.
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The Biotechnology Society of Nigeria
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A total of three hundred stool samples collected from' one hundred and twenty six patients (attending
Federal Medical Centre; Bamaiyi Hospital, Peace hospital, Yola Biomedics Laboratory and Beta
Laboratory) and one hundred and seventy four volunteers (students of Daubeli Secondary School) were
examined. Twenty of the samples analyzed were non-lactose fermenters and were subjected to serotyping.
The results of the serotyping identified II S. typhi iso lates (3.7%), 3 S. paratyphi A isolates ( 1.0%) and 2 S.
panttyphi l3 isolates (0 67°o) and -1 non- SalmoneliCI isolates. Antibiotic sensitivity test on the elevenS.
tyrhi IStJiatcs sllOIIS that ge11tamicin has the highest ef"fica'c~ (90.9°-o) followed b; olloxacin (63.6%) and
colistin sulfate (27 . 3'~o) t-cspcctl\cly. \"he el'lic~lcles ol· streptomycin. chloramphenicol and tetracycline
ag llllst these isulatc'i 11 c1·e truund lJ I 0 o.
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QH301 Biology