ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE AMONG SALMONELLAE FROM ANIMALS

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Department of Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Mosul, Mosul, Iraq.

Abstract

Salmonellosis is an economically important disease of
domestic animals, and appears to be one of the most
common examples of an enteric disease that is trans-
mitted from animals to humans (Threlfall et al., 1978;
Hepner, 1980; Hadad et al., 1988; Donahue, 1986;
Gillespre and Timoney, 1981). The extensive use of |
various antibiotics for prevention, therapeutic and
nutritive purposes in domestic animals has contribu-
ted to the development of drug-resistant Salmonella
to such antibiotics. |
In recent years most of Salmonella strains isolated
from domestic animals were resistant to antibiotics
 and most of these drug-resistant Salmonella carried 
conjugative R-plasmids (Duck et al., 1978; Makino
et al., 1981; Mills and Kelly, 1985; Threlfall et
al., 1985; Timoney, 1978; Ishiguro et al., 1980),
which present a serious problem when using these
antibiotics in disease eradication and it may posses
serious public health hazard (Rowe et al., 1979 ;
Threlfall et al., 1978, 1985). :
In this paper, the antimicrobial susceptibility of
122 Salmonella isolates, isolated during 1982-1985
from animals in Mosul is examined.

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