Table 4.
Common antimicrobial groups used by farmers from a total of 374 households in three agro-ecological zones in Ethiopia.
| Highland mixed crop-livestock (n = 128) | Lowland mixed crop-livestock (n = 126) |
Mid/lowland pastoral (n = 120) |
Total (n = 374) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Classes of antibiotics | ||||||||
| Tetracyclines | 20a | 15.6 | 26a | 20.6 | 90b | 75 | 136 | 36.4 |
| Trimethoprim-sulfonamides | 3a | 2.34 | 1a | 0.79 | 20b | 16.67 | 24 | 6.24 |
| Penicillins | 0a | 0 | 0a | 0 | 5b | 4.17 | 5 | 1.34 |
| Macrolides | 0a | 0 | 0a | 0 | 17b | 14.17 | 17 | 4.55 |
| Aminoglycosides | 18a | 14.1 | 3b | 2.4 | 96c | 80 | 117 | 31.3 |
| Groups of antihelimintics | ||||||||
| Albendazole/benzimidazole | 84a | 65.6 | 40b | 31.8 | 61c | 50.8 | 185 | 49.5 |
| Triclabendazole | 92a | 71.9 | 0b | 0 | 0b | 0 | 92 | 24.6 |
| Fenbendazole | 6a | 4.69 | 0b | 0 | 0b | 0 | 6 | 1.6 |
| Ivermectin (Macrocyclic lactones) | 37a | 28.9 | 1b | 0.79 | 74c | 61.7 | 112 | 29.9 |
| Imidazothiazole (Tetramizole, Tetraclozan, Clozasole) | 65a | 50.8 | 1b | 0.8 | 0b | 0 | 66 | 17.6 |
Each subscript letter denotes a subset of agro-ecological zones whose column frequency does not differ significantly from each other at the 0.05 level.