Antibiogram of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli isolates recovered from ready to eat food samples in ULI campus

Abstract

Food-borne disease outbreak have imposed substantial burden on health care systems and have markedly reduced the economic productivity of a country. Ready to eat food are well known source for bacteriological contamination with pathogen responsible for health hazard like food poisoning and diarrheal disease and they play significant role in transfer of antibiotic resistance. This study aims to evaluate bacteriological status of fried rice, jollof rice, turkey and chicken and the Antibiogram. A comparative study of the food samples was carried out using standard procedures for isolation and identification of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli as potential reservoir of human infection and transmitters of antimicrobial resistance. The prevalence of E. coli, K. pneumonia and P. aeruginosaand in food samples was found to be 68.45%, 20.24% and 11.31% respectively. E. coli showed good level of susceptibility to Tarivid 10mcg, Reflacine 10 mcg, Ciproflox 10 mcg and Streptomycin 30mcg. While K. pneumonia had fairly good susceptibility to Ciproflox 10 mcg, Streptomycin 30 mcg and Gentamycin 10mcg and P. aeruginosa was resistant to the antibiotics used. These data revealed also that the E. coli, K. pneumonia and P. aeruginosa isolates recovered from the food samples were resistant to multiple antimicrobials, which can be transmitted to humans through food products.