Prevalence and antibiogram studies of Salmonella enteritidis isolated from human and poultry sources
2010
Akhtar, F. (University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (Pakistan). Dept. of Microbiology) | Hussain, I. (University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (Pakistan). Dept. of Microbiology) | Khan, A. (University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (Pakistan). Dept. of Pathology) | Rahman, S.U. (University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (Pakistan). Dept. of Microbiology)
A total of 615 samples including poultry eggs (240), poultry meat (85), poultry droppings (100), bakery products (65) and stool from human diarrhea cases (125) were collected from different areas of Faisalabad, Pakistan. The samples enriched in Tetrathionate broth showed turbidity in 206 (33.5%) samples, and typical Salmonella colonies were found on differential agar media by using traditional methods in all these cases. Polyvalent antisera were used to identify Salmonella serovars. Results revealed that overall serovar entertidis prevalence rate in 206 Salmonella positive samples was 75.24% (155). Out of 58 isolates of Salmonella recovered from human stool samples, 44 (75.86%) were S. enteritidis. Isolation frequency of S. enteritidis from total isolates (148/206) in poultry sources was 111/148 (75.00%) which indicated the zoonotic potential of S. enteritidis. Antimicrobial susceptibility tests were performed by using disk diffusion and concentration methods.
Show more [+] Less [-]AGROVOC Keywords
Bibliographic information
This bibliographic record has been provided by National Agricultural Research Centre
