Present study endeavored to evaluate the microbial contamination level along with their drug resistant pattern in some popular desert food items collected from different food shops in Dhaka city, Bangladesh. The microbial evaluation was conducted through conventional cultural methods and drug susceptibility test was executed through disc diffusion method. All the samples were found to be contaminated with heterotrophic bacteria as well as fungi within the range of 103 to 105 CFU/g. In case of specific microflora, the growth of Staphylococcus spp. was very high in sweet, faluda, milk cake and ice cream as estimated up to 105 CFU/g, halua and sweet yogurt showed 104 CFU/g while rest of the samples revealed 103 CFU/g. E. coli was found only in faluda and ice cream up to 103 CFU/g whereas Klebsiella spp. was estimated in all the samples within the range of 102 CFU/g to 105 CFU/g. Salmonella spp., Pseudomonas spp. and Bacillus spp. were totally absent in all the samples. Most of the isolates were found to be resistant against most of the antibiotics. Meanwhile, streptomycin (10 µg), gentamicin (10 µg), azithromycin (15 µg), and nalidixic acid (5 µg) were effective drug against both E. coli and Staphylococcus spp.
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