Abstract

The current study was designed to isolate and identification of Salmonella from human stool using salmonellashigella agar, the diagnosis of Salmonella relied on cultural properties where the Salmonella colonies on S.S.agar revealed pale with black center. Out of 72 samples were collected 59.7% were positive to Salmonella.The antibiotic susceptibility test of all positive isolates for Salmonella performed by using disk diffusionmethodagainst numerous antibiotics, The result of this test presented that the Salmonella isolates werehighly resistant to Levofloxacin 43(100%), Amoxicillin/Clavulanate 40(93.0%), Streptomycin 22(51.2%),Tetracycline 19(44.2%), Imipenem 19(44.2%) and Amikacin 18(41.9%). While Salmonella isolates weremoderately sensitive to Kanamycin 9(20.9%). The current study refers to Salmonella gastroenteritistreatment can be use Kanamycinas first treatment option.

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