Prevalence of Aeromonas Species Among Patients Attending General Hospital Owerri
AMS, 01 (04):
01-10 (ноября 2014)Аннотация
A total of two hundred (200) stool samples were collected from patients attending General Hospital Owerri and screened for the presence of Aeromonas species. Out of the two hundred (200) stool samples, one hundred and fifty (150) were collected from diarrheal patients while fifty (150) were collected from nondiarrheal patients. Aeromonas species were only isoloated from diarrheal patients stool samples.The prevalence of Aeromonas species in diarrheal patients was 5.3%. Aeromonas species were found to be highly (100%) susceptible to ceftazidime, followed by cefotaxime (85%), then Augmentin (75%) and Gentamicin (65%), but highly (100%) resistant to Ampicillin and Tretracyclin following by contrimoxazole (83%). This observation could probably indicates that Aeromonas as enteropathogen associated with diarrheal and should be considered amongst the causative agents of diarrheal.