[Antibiotic susceptibility among antibiotic resistant salmonellae isolated from children [0-2 years] affected by diarrhea in Shahrekord and resistance factor transmissibility to E.Coli k12]

Background and Aim: the aim of this study was to detect the dominant serotypes of salmonellae in children and to find the antibiotic susceptibility and R-factor transmissibility among isolated salmonellae

Method: this study was conducted on 400 diarrheic stool samples collected from children in Ayatollah Kashany hospital of Shahrekord, during spring of 1999 to autumn of 2000

Results: after isolation and identification of salmonellae, seven serotypes were detected. One of them was S. typhi and other the six serotypes were S. paratyphi B. Then biogram test was performed by disk diffusion method. Best Results were taken from ceftizoxim, cephtriaxon, cephazolin and chloramphenicol. The R-factor had been transferred from isolated salmonellae to penicillin and ampicillin

Conclusion: results substanciate that unnessessary usage of antibiotics, which is the main cause of drug resistance, should be prevented