Occurrence and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Profile of Salmonella Isolates from Animal Origin Food Items in Selected Areas of Arsi Zone, Southeastern Ethiopia, 2018/19

Table 2

Overall prevalence of Salmonella isolated from selected type of animal origin food items in the study settings.

Variable category	Number of sample tested	Result of tested sample number		χ2 ( value)
		Negative sample N (%)	Positive sample N (%)
Study settings				7.261 (0.117)
Dera	36	32 (88.9)	4 (11.1)
Iteya	31	31 (100)	0 (0)
Asella	62	55 (88.7)	7 (11.3)
Bekoji	37	35 (94.6)	2 (5.4)
Gobessa	26	21 (80.8)	5 (19.2)
Total	192	174 (90.6)	18 (9.4)

χ2, Pearson chi-square; N, Number of samples.