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Accordingly the bacterial sensitivity to a range of antibiotics has been assessed<jats:italic>in vitro<\/jats:italic>and recorded for the period 1979\u201383 for patients from the Al Qassimi Hospital. A total of 229 enteric pathogens from 148 children and 59 adult patients were isolated and studied. Most of the enterobacteria were sensitive to colistin, gentamicin, trimethoprim and chloramphenicol (<jats:italic>Salmonella typhi<\/jats:italic>approached 100% sensitivity). High rates of sensitivity were also found to ampicillin in<jats:italic>S. typhi<\/jats:italic>(96%) and other salmonella serotypes (85%), whilst only 57% of<jats:italic>Shigella<\/jats:italic>species and 14% of<jats:italic>Escherichia coli<\/jats:italic>were sensitive to this antibiotic. Low rates of sensitivity to sulphamethoxazole, streptomycin and tetracycline were found in shigella and<jats:italic>E. coli<\/jats:italic>(ranging from 7 to 14%). Approximately 50% of<jats:italic>S. typhi<\/jats:italic>and other salmonella serotypes were sensitive to sulphamethoxazole and streptomycin and 80% to tetracycline. Resistance to three or more antibiotics was very common in shigella and enteropathogenic strains of<jats:italic>E. coli<\/jats:italic>(74\u201385%), less common in non-typhoid salmonella (29%) and exceptional in<jats:italic>S. typhi<\/jats:italic>strains. In general, shigella and<jats:italic>E. coli<\/jats:italic>isolates showed a high rate of resistance to several antibiotics, whilst<jats:italic>S. typhi<\/jats:italic>and other salmonella serotypes retained their original sensitivity to most of the antibiotics used in clinical practice.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1017\/s0022172400064226","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,10,19]],"date-time":"2009-10-19T12:57:47Z","timestamp":1255957067000},"page":"205-208","update-policy":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1017\/policypage","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Antibiotic sensitivity of enteropathogenic bacteria isolated from patients in a Sharjah hospital"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"92","author":[{"given":"V.","family":"Damjanovic","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Maria","family":"Furtado","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"M.","family":"Patmore","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"56","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2009,10,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"S0022172400064226_ref004","volume-title":"Cowan and Steel's Manual for the Identification of Medical Bacteria","author":"Cowan","year":"1974"},{"key":"S0022172400064226_ref001","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1136\/bmj.3.5822.329"},{"key":"S0022172400064226_ref006","volume-title":"Infectious Diseases of Children","author":"Krugman","year":"1981"},{"key":"S0022172400064226_ref008","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/0035-9203(78)90118-9"},{"key":"S0022172400064226_ref003","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"737","DOI":"10.1016\/S0300-5089(21)00236-4","article-title":"Campylobacter enteritis","volume":"8","author":"Butzler","year":"1979","journal-title":"Clinics in Gastroenterology"},{"key":"S0022172400064226_ref007","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1056\/NEJM197308302890906"},{"key":"S0022172400064226_ref009","volume-title":"Antibiotics and Chemotherapy","author":"Waterworth","year":"1981"},{"key":"S0022172400064226_ref005","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1017\/S0022172400063798"},{"key":"S0022172400064226_ref002","volume-title":"Bacterial Resistance and Susceptibility to Chemotherapeutic Agents","author":"Bryan","year":"1982"}],"container-title":["Journal of Hygiene"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/services\/aop-cambridge-core\/content\/view\/S0022172400064226","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,12]],"date-time":"2021-10-12T16:01:58Z","timestamp":1634054518000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/product\/identifier\/S0022172400064226\/type\/journal_article"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[1984,4]]},"references-count":9,"journal-issue":{"issue":"2","published-print":{"date-parts":[[1984,4]]}},"alternative-id":["S0022172400064226"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/s0022172400064226","relation":{},"ISSN":["0022-1724"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0022-1724","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[1984,4]]},"assertion":[{"value":"Cambridge University Press 1984","name":"license","label":"License","group":{"name":"copyright_and_licensing","label":"Copyright and Licensing"}}]}}