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POSSIBLE ROUTES OF BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; A STUDY ON TRICYCLES USED WITHIN ABAKALIKI METROPOLIS
Odo Ikechukwu Ituma, Udu-Ibiam Onyinyechi E, Anger Robin A, Ovuaja Maureen N.
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Strategic places in tricycles used in Abakaliki metropolis were aseptically swabbed and examined using standard microbiological method. The bacterial count revealed that the examined tricycles analyzed had a bacterial load that ranges from 3.2 x 107 to 1.1.2 x 107. Morphological and biochemical characteristics of bacteria isolates from the samples shows that a total of three isolates were identified and they includes; Staphylococcus aureus, Eschericia coli and Klebsiella spp. Predominantly Staphylococcus aureus was isolated from most of the tricycles examined at a percentage of 38(80%) whereas the least was 1(2%). When the isolates were tested against the local disinfectant it was observed that Germicide Z© had a greater inhibitory effect on the isolates closely followed by De© showing an inhibition zone diameter that ranged between 12mm to 40mm and 20 to 40 mm respectively. Disinfectant IZ© had no inhibitory effect on the isolates.
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