"Prevalence and Antimicrobial Resistant Status of E. Coli in Commercial Chicken Eggs in Bishoftu, Shwa, Central Ethiopia"

Abstract

The high prevalence of multidrug-resistant E. coli in table chicken egg shell supplied to the market center and shop from which the society can purchased for their food consumption, reflects a reservoir of resistance and easily transmission to humans. the objective of the current study was determining the prevalence and antimicrobial resistant status of E. coli in commercial chicken eggs in Bishoftu town, east, Shewa, Ethiopia. Between June 2021 to September 2021. Egg shells swabs egg internal contents were sampled purposively from the Bishoftu town market center and local shops. The E. coli was isolated by conventional bacteriological culturing on selective media and biochemical tests. The colony characterized as E. coli was subjected to antimicrobial susceptibility tests. From 92 samples, the E. coli was recovered from eleven (11.95%) of the egg samples collected from the marketing centers and shop in Bishoftu town, East Shewa, Ethiopia. out of 40-egg shell swab collected from the market center two (5%) of them are contaminated with e coli while out of 52 egg shell swabs collected from the shop 9 (17.3%) was contaminated by E coli with the significant differences between the marketing center and shops (P-Value = 0.009). the prevalence Escherichia coli in the Shell eggs and egg contents were (11.9 and 5.2%, respectively) with the significant statistical difference (P-Value = 0.0002).All isolates (100%) were multi-drug resistance as eight (72.7%) of isolates were resistant to five different antimicrobials used and three (27.3%) of isolates were resistance the eight different antimicrobials used. The prevalence of antimicrobial resistance among the tested antibiotics was significantly different (p < 0.02). Improvement in the hygienic conditions of poultry farms and control of the misuse and overuse of antibiotics in poultry is therefore strongly recommended. 2050, 10 million deaths per year will Globally, unless immediate