Research Article
Prevalence, Antibiotic Susceptibility Profile, and Associated Risk Factors of Salmonella Isolate among Diarrheal Patients Visiting Dessie Referral Hospital, Northeast Ethiopia
Table 1
Prevalence of Salmonella spp. and sociodemographic characteristics of the study participants (n = 384).
| Sociodemographic characteristics | Total numbers examined | No. of positives (%) | values |
| Age (years) | 0.25–4 | 180 | 12 (60) | 0.022 | 5–14 | 120 | 6 (30) | >15 | 84 | 2 (10) | Gender | Male | 181 | 8 (40) | 0.371 | Female | 203 | 12 (60) | Place of residence | Urban | 171 | 7 | 0.180 | Rural | 213 | 13 | Educational status | Literate | 142 | 12 | 0.371 | Illiterate | 242 | 8 |
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