Prevalence and antibiotic susceptibility pattern of Salmonella spp isolated from street vended foods in Akola city
Department of Microbiology, Shri Shivaji College of Arts, Commerce and Science, Akola -444001 (M.S), India.
Research Article
World Journal of Biology Pharmacy and Health Sciences, 2023, 14(02), 222–232.
Article DOI: 10.30574/wjbphs.2023.14.2.0206
Publication history:
Received on 25 March 2023; revised on 05 May 2023; accepted on 08 May 2023
Abstract:
Foodborne illness is a major public health problem including India in which the street food prepared and sold by vendors on the street and other public places are a major source of foodborne diseases. Salmonella is one of the most important pathogenic genera implicated in food borne bacterial outbreak and diseases. In the present study a total of 55 food samples were collected from various street vended food shops and were used to check the presence of Salmonella spp. Results showed that about 40 (73%) samples were found contaminated with Salmonella spp. it was found that S.typhimurium was most prominently found (37.5%) followed by S.typhi (30%), S.paratyphi (17.5%) and S.enteritidis (15%). All the 40 isolates were checked for the antibiotic susceptibility pattern reveals that most of the isolates showed multiple drug resistance (MDR) which might cause public health hazards if these antibiotic resistance gene transfer to human.
Keywords:
Foodborne; Salmonella spp; Street vended; MDR
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