The present study was conducted to investigate the prevalence of serotypes and antimicrobial susceptibility of Salmonella isolated from various domestic animals in Gyeongbuk Province during the period from January to December 2000.
From the 3,141 animal samples, 51 (1.6%) Salmonella spp. were isolated and belonged to 8 serotypes. Serotypes with decreasing order of prevalence were S. enteritidis (17 isolates; 29.6%), S. agona (11; 20.3%), S. rissen (8; 14.8%), S. gallinarum (4; 7.4%), S. derby (3; 5.5%), S. tvphirmvium (2; 3.7%), S. travis (1; 1.8%), S. montevideo (1; 1.8%) and untypable (4; 12.9%). Antimicrobial susceptibility tests showed that most isolates were susceptible to amikacin (loo%), ampicillin (92.2%), cephalothin (90.2%), chloramphenicol (96.1%), ciprofloxacin (92.2%), genta- micin (92.2%), kanamycin (98.0%), norfloxacin (92.2%), bimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (100%) and tobramycin (100%). However, antimicrobials to which the high percentage of isolates were resistant were sbeptomycin (37.2%) and tetracycline (47.1%).
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