Prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of Salmonella and Shigella isolates among children aged below five years with diarrhea attending Robe General Hospital and Goba Referral Hospital, South East Ethiopia

• Published in: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines
• Main Authors: Addisu Assefa, Mengistu Girma
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2019
• Subjects: Children; Drug susceptibility test; Prevalence; Associated factors; Salmonella; Shigella; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Hektoen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40794-019-0096-6; https://doaj.org/article/67c25dc082ba4ca085b466d7f6d2f978

Abstract Background Diarrheal diseases are responsible for high level of morbidity and mortality, particularly in children below 5 years. Salmonella and Shigella spp. are pathogenic microbes responsible for the major diarrheal associated mortality. The purpose of this study was to determine the prev...