Isolation and antibiogram of salmonella enterica from children under five years with Diarrhea in Thi-Qar province

الملخص EN

The present study aimed to determine the prevalence of Salmonella in children under five years and to determine the antimicrobial susceptibility profiles among the isolates.

Our study was carried out during the period from November 2017 to May 2018.

Four hundred fecal samples were collected from children aged (1day-5 years) of both sexes (216 Male, 184 Female) that had suffering from diarrhea in Mohammed Al -Mosawi Hospital and public health laboratory in Thi-Qar province/southern Iraq.

Twenty isolates (5%) were identified as Salmonella using API-20E system and molecular detection using invA gene.

Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was done using 9 Antibiotics from different classes showed that all isolates were sensitive to Chloramphenicol and Tetracycline.

Resistance ratio to Cefotaxime, Ampicillin, Amikacin, Ceftriaxone, Gentamycin, Nalidixic acid, and Ciprofloxacin at (55%), (45%), (35%), (30%), (30%), (30%) and (15%) respectively.