Reference | HHH8SSAN (75)

The chicken production systems are also known to use antimicrobials at different levels to tackle other diseases. The effect of these in selecting antibiotic-resistant Salmonella is not precisely known. Thus, this study is aiming at establishing prevalence, antimicrobial resistance profile, and resistance gene determination in non-typhoidal Salmonella spp in Morogoro, Tanzania.

The study was conducted in Morogoro Municipality, in Morogoro Region between October 2019 and May 2020. The Municipal Council has one division, which is subdivided into 29 Administrative Wards. About 33% of the population is engaged in subsistence farming and livestock keeping (URT,2013). Three wards of Magadu, Mzinga, and Bigwa were purposively selected as sampling areas based on the accessibility of the area and the availability of both chickens as study materials. A total of 384 cloaca swab samples were collected from healthy free range and broilers chickens using sterile swabs.

AST Method: Disk Diffusion

Reference explicitly reports AST breakpoints: None

Reference reports using a MIC table: None