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Nursing and Healthcare 2019

Journal of Primary Care and General Practice | Volume 2

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ANTIBIOGRAM PROFILE OF SOME MYCOLOGICAL PATHOGENS ISOLATED

FROM LOCALLY BRED PET DOGS IN ELEME LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF

RIVERS STATE, NIGERIA

Azuonw Obioma, Girah Korikuromo Ikieweremi, Testmonies C

and

Ihua Nnenna

Rivers State University, Nigeria

et dogs are companion animals that bring major physiological and social wellbeing to the owners and soci-

ety at large. However, due to increasing trends of interaction of these household pets such as dogs withman

in the environment, they have been strongly implicated as major source of various forms of human infections,

especially of zoonotic perspective and interest. The aim of this study was to investigate fungal pathogens that

are associated with pet dogs which are of zoonotic importance, and also to evaluate their antibiogram profile,

especially in an era of increasing public health challenges of antimicrobial resistance issues in our local com-

munities, thus these could probably be linked to incessant drug abuse and poor health education among the

citizens in our rural communities. One hundred (100) swab samples were collected from different sites in the

communities at random, hence (fifty (50) from the buccal cavity and fifty (50) from the nasal cavity). The sam-

ples were analyzed in the University of Port Harcourt teaching hospital microbiology laboratory, using micro-

biological technique and data obtained from the laboratory analysis were analyzed using Statistical Package

for Social Science (SPSS), version 21. However, Two (2) species of fungal pathogens which are

Candida species

with a prevalence of 30 (30%) and

Aspergillus Sp.

with prevalence of 31(31%) were isolated from both the nasal

and buccal cavity of the dogs. Nevertheless, the mean value of the total heterotrophic count for buccal swab

was 84.441±33.4494 and 91.630±38.9508 for nasal swab with an associated p-value of 0.33. Furthermore, the

results for sensitivity testing of the antifungal drug show that all the isolates were resistant to Nystatin, but

were susceptible to fluconazole, clotrimazole and ketoconazole. However, the recovery of fungal isolates from

dogs strongly suggests that, animals to human transmission of pathogens may be common which is of public

health importance. Hence adequate care should be taken to reduce the increasing trend of animal to man

contacts, so as to reduce the occurrence of zoonotic infections, as well as minimize the antimicrobial resistance

health challenges in our communities.

Azuonw Obioma et al., J Prim Care Gen Pract 2019, Volume 2

Azuonwu Obioma works in the department of medical laboratory sciencea and is a faculty of science at Rivers State

University of Science and Technology located at Nkpolu, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. His research interests are in the health-

care and its allied regions.

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