Incidence of multiple antibiotic resistances in organisms isolated from cases of infantile diarrhoea in a Nigerian oral rehydration therapy clinic.
A total of 247 bacterial isolates were obtained from diarrhoeal patients aged 0-60 months in an oral rehydration therapy clinic in Ibadan and tested for sensitivity to 11 antibiotics using the disc diffusion method. Fifty isolates obtained from apparently healthy age-matched controls were similarly tested. The results show that 6(2.4%) of the isolates obtained from the diarrhoeal children were resistant to all the 11 antibiotics used in the test and that most of the others were resistant to several antibiotics. Similarly, a very considerable percentage of isolates obtained from children in the control group were found to be resistant to several antibiotics. It is therefore apparent that there is a high incidence of multiply-antibiotic-resistant isolates within the sample environment.
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Faculty of Pharmacy, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
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D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D001419:Bacteria / Q000187:drug effects / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003968:Diarrhea, Infantile / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000628:therapy; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D005440:Fluid Therapy; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009549:Nigeria
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents