Bacteriological quality of sheep meat in Mhow town of India
2006
Yadav, Mahendra Mohan | Tale, Sham | Sharda, Rakesh | Sharma, Varsha | Tiwari, Sheela | Garg, Umesh K.
The purpose of this study was to investigate bacterial load in ready-to-sale sheep meat with special reference to Salmonella. Samples were collected from 100 sheep carcasses from retail meat shops in domestic markets. On carcasses, where bacterial counts were obtained, the mean of the log₁₀ aerobic plate count was 7.26 cfu g⁻¹, and that of total coliform count and total Escherichia coli count was 4.11 log₁₀ cfu g⁻¹ and 3.03 log₁₀ cfu g⁻¹, respectively. All the samples (100) were found positive for coliforms, 49.0% were positive for E. coli and 3.0% were positive for Salmonella. The isolates were serotyped as Salmonella infantis having antigenic structure 6, 7: r: 1, 5. Antibiogram revealed highest (100.0%) sensitivity towards amikacin, ceftriaxone, ciprofloxacin, chloramphenicol, colistin sulphate, gentamicin and nalidixic acid followed by cefuroxime and tetracycline (66.67% each) and cotrimoxazole (33.33%). All the strains were resistant to ampicillin.
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