Study area and time No. of strains Antibiotics
AMP C CIP CRO SXT TE NA GM
Awassa[35] 100 93.0 63.0 - - 56.0 90.0 10.0 2.0
Gondar [19] 214 79.9 52.8 8.9 - 73.4 86.0 - 7.9
Addis Ababa [30] 76 78.7 74.7 - - 45.7 97.3 2.7 0.0
Gondar [18] 90 78.9 67.8 2.2 0.0 84.6 90.0 0.0 12.2
Harar[15] 17 100.0 29.4 -   - 70.6 - 0.0
Butajira (This study, 2012) 17 47.1 29.4 5.9 0.0 76.5 82.4 5.9 17.6
AMP=Ampicillin, C=Chloramphenicaol, CIP=Ciprofloxacin, CRO=Ceftriaxone, SXT=Cotrimoxazole, TE=Tetracycline, NA=Nalidixic Acid, GM=Gentamicin
Table 4: Percentages of antimicrobial resistance of Shigella isolates, Butajira Health Centre, 2012 compared with selected previous reports from Ethiopia.