Applied Microbiology: Open Access
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Department of Agricutural Chemistry, Kulumsa Agricultural Research Center, Asella, Ethiopia

Biography

Dugasa Gerenfes is a researcher with resarch interest in Soil Fertility, Soil Analysis,Soil Chemistry, Fertilizers, Plant Nutrition at Kulumsa Agricultural Research Center, Department of Agricultural and Nutrition Research Program, Ethiopian Institute of Agriculture Research (EIAR), Kulumsa Agricultural Research Center, Assela, Ethiopia. He had specialised in Soil Fertility, Soil Analysis.

Publications

• Research   
  Neisseria gonorrhoeae and their Antimicrobial Susceptibility Patterns among Patients from Adama Town, Ethiopia
  Author(s): Tadesse Gerenfes* and Dugasa Gerenfes
  
  Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a gram negative coffee-bean shaped intracellular diplodocus bacterium that causes gonorrhea which is one of the sexually transmitted infections. Antibiotic resistant, Neisseria gonorrhoeae is emerging in many parts of the world, especially in developing countries; antimicrobial resistance to the commonly prescribed antibiotics. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 422 study participant sexually transmitted infections suspected patients attending Adama Hospital Medical College. Then, samples was transported to Oromia Public Health Research Capacity Building Quality Assurance Laboratory and processed following standard microbiological culture techniques. Antimicrobial susceptibility test was performed. In this study 16(3.8%) of the STI suspected patients were confirmed to have Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Most of the participants were fe.. View More»
  

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