ABSTRACT

The emergence of antibiotic resistance among human has prompted concerns about the public health implications of antibiotic use in agriculture. The objective of the study was to determine the occurrence of Salmonella and their antimicrobial susceptibility pattern in poultry droppings from different locations within Abakaliki metropolis. About 100 poultry samples were aseptically collected, serially diluted and cultured using pour plate method. Isolation and identification of Salmonella were performed according to standard bacteriological protocol. Susceptibility testing of Salmonella isolates to 8 different antibiotics was carried out using disc diffusion method on Muller-Hinton agar. The microbial load of the samples ranged between 0.20±0.03 to 3.72±2.80 x106 CFU/g. The percentage occurrence of the isolates revealed that 9(15%) for Fidelis farm, 7(11.7%) Kpirikpiri market, 5(8.3%) Aguogboriga, 4(6.7%) Meat market and 2(3.3%) Garage express farm. Antibiotic sensitivity patterns of the bacterial isolates against eight tested antibiotics showed 100% susceptibility to imipenem, 21% was susceptible to tobramycin, amoxicillin 17% and meropenem 3%, but it was 100% resistant to ceftazidime. Overall, improper antimicrobial treatment and overuse of antibiotics for agricultural purposes which contributed to increase incidence of multiple antibiotic resistance in farm animals must be discouraged. Keywords: Antibiotic resistance, Abakaiki, Poultry farm, Salmonella
Publication date: 01/03/2020

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2020/9.3.4991