ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE AMONG SALMONELLAE FROM ANIMALS

Salmonellosis is an economically important disease of domestic animals, and appears to be one of the most common examples of an enteric disease that is trans- mitted from animals to humans (Threlfall et al., 1978; Hepner, 1980; Hadad et al., 1988; Donahue, 1986; Gillespre and Timoney, 1981). The extensive use of | various antibiotics for prevention, therapeutic and nutritive purposes in domestic animals has contribu- ted to the development of drug-resistant Salmonella to such antibiotics. | In recent years most of Salmonella strains isolated from domestic animals were resistant to antibiotics and most of these drug-resistant Salmonella carried conjugative R-plasmids (Duck et al., 1978; Makino et al., 1981; Mills and Kelly, 1985; Threlfall et al., 1985; Timoney, 1978; Ishiguro et al., 1980), which present a serious problem when using these antibiotics in disease eradication and it may posses serious public health hazard (Rowe et al., 1979 ; Threlfall et al., 1978, 1985). : In this paper, the antimicrobial susceptibility of 122 Salmonella isolates, isolated during 1982-1985 from animals in Mosul is examined.