Table 3.
Classes and frequency of antibiotics used in small-scale poultry farms in Enugu State.
| Antibiotics used | Frequency (%) of use |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Never | Rarely | Often | Always | |
| Tetracyclines e.g. chlortetracycline and oxytetracycline | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 47 (53.4) | 41 (46.6) |
| Macrolides e.g. erythromycin, tylosin | 14 (15.9) | 0(0.0) | 45 (51.1) | 29 (33.0) |
| Aminoglycosides e.g. gentamicin, neomycin, streptomycin | 14 (15.9) | 3 (3.4) | 47 (53.4) | 24 (27.3) |
| Penicillin e.g. amoxicillin | 15 (17.0) | 8 (9.1) | 52 (59.1) | 13 (14.8) |
| Fluroquinolones e.g. enrofloxacin, flumequine | 36 (40.9) | 9 (10.2) | 35 (39.8) | 8 (9.1) |
| Cephalosporins e.g. cefotaxime | 48 (54.5) | 16 (18.2) | 20 (22.7) | 4 (4.5) |
| Polypeptides e.g. bacitracin | 46 (52.3) | 18 (20.5) | 19 (21.6) | 5 (5.7) |
| Ionophores e.g. monensin | 54 (61.4) | 28 (31.8) | 3 (3.4) | 3 (3.4) |