• SUSCEPTIBILITIES OF Salmonella typhi AND OTHER BACTERIAL PATHOGENS TO ANTIBIOTICS AND HOT AQUEOUS EXTRACT OF Hibiscus sabdariffa


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    • ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The susceptibilities of Salmonella typhi and other pathogens to antibiotics and hot aqueous extract of Hibiscus sabdariffa were investigated using agar diffusion and agar well diffusion methods respectively. Salmonella typhi was sensitive to ampicillin, cetriaxone, ciprofloxacin, gentamycin of ofloxacin and perfloxacin. Nitrofurantoin, ampicillin, clarithomycin and augumentin are resistant. Escherichia coli, Klebsiella spp, and Staphylococcus aureus were sensitive to 50%, 70% and 60% of the antibiotics respectively. Pseudomonas aeruginosa was resistant to all antibiotics. Hibiscus sabdariffa e ... Continue Reading

         

      CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]Salmonella typhi is an enteric bacterium responsible for causing typhoid fever which has affected mankind since human population became large enough to contaminate the supply of its water. It is a food borne disease contracted by ingestion of bacteria in contaminated food or water (jerry, 2007). The sources of infection could be through infected food, poor kitchen hygiene, and excretions from either sick people or infected but apparently clinically healthy people and animals, polluted surface water standing water and so on. The signs and symptoms of the disease has 4 phases, fi ... Continue Reading