Open Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2015, 5, 113-117 Published Online September 2015 in SciRes. http://www.scirp.org/journal/ojmm http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojmm.2015.53014 How to cite this paper: Jahantigh, M., Jafari, S.M., Rashki, A. and Salari, S. (2015) Prevalence and Antibiotic Resistance of Salmonella spp. in Turkey. Open Journal of Medical Microbiology, 5, 113-117. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojmm.2015.53014 Prevalence and Antibiotic Resistance of Salmonella spp. in Turkey Mohammad Jahantigh 1* , Seyede Maryam Jafari 2 , Ahmad Rashki 3 , Saeed Salari 3 1 Department of Poultry Diseases, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran 2 School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran 3 Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran Email: * mjahantig@yahoo.com Received 18 July 2015; accepted 28 August 2015; published 31 August 2015 Copyright © 2015 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract The current study was conducted to investigate the prevalence of Salmonella spp. in turkey and to determine the antimicrobial resistance pattern of the isolated Salmonellae. Two hundred and fifty turkeys were randomly selected for cloacal soab samples preparation, and the samples were in- vestigated for Salmonella isolation. Identification of the isolated Salmonella was performed using standard bacteriological and biochemical procedures. The prevalence of Salmonella in turkey was about 14.8%. Disc diffusion tests on Muller-Hinton agar were used to determine the sensitivity to antibacterial agents. Ten antibiotics were studied: lincospectin, colistin, cephalexin, ciprofloxacin, chloramphenicol, gentamycin, furazolidone, streptomycin, co-trimoxazole (trimethoprim-sulfam- ethoxazole) and tetracycline. The highest resistant was observed against cephalexin (89.2%), te- tracycline (86.5%), colistin (83.8%), and furazolidone (73%). The Highest sensitivity was found to gentamycin (86.5%), ciprofloxacin (83.8%), chloramphenicol (51.4%) and streptomycin (40.6%). The results showed high prevalence of Salmonella spp. in turkey and high levels of antimicrobial resistance pattern of the isolated Salmonellae were observed. Keywords Antibiotic Resistance, Prevalence, Salmonella, Turkey 1. Introduction Salmonellosis is one of the common diseases in all places. Unhygienic farm condition is major predisposing factor for cause of this disease. Some of the diseases of Salmonella are transmissible from man to birds. In the * Corresponding author.