Prevalence of Intestinal Parasites and Gastrointestinal Carriage of Pathogenic Gram Negative Enteric Bacteria among Apparently Healthy Food Handlers of Public Hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Table 5

Antibiotic sensitivity pattern of Shigella flexneri isolated from stool specimens of food handlers in public hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, March to June 2017.

Antibiotics	AST
	R	%	S	%
Ampicillin (10 μg)	3	100	0	0
Cefotaxime (5 μg)	0	0	3	100
Azithromycin (15 μg)	1	33.3	2	66.7
Naldixic acid (30 μg)	1	33.3	2	66.7
Ciprofloxacin (5 μg)	0	0	3	100
Gentamycin (10 μg)	0	0	3	100
Chloroamphenicol (30 μg)	0	0	3	100
Tetracycline (30 μg)	3	100	0	0
Trimethoprime/sulfamethoxazole (1.25/23.75 μg)	1	33.3	2	66.7

R = resistant, S = sensitive. All 100% (n = 3) Shigella flexneri isolates were resistant to ampicillin and tetracycline whereas two (66.7%) Shigella flexneri isolates were MDR (Table 5).