Prevalence of foodborne pathogens in open markets and supermarkets in Thailand

Prevalence and antibiogram study of Salmonella and Staphylococcus aureus in poultry meat

“…Ellerbroek et al reported 27% and 34.8% resistance against kanamycin and gentamicin respectively to Salmonella isolates in a similar study which is in compliance of our study [21] . In a similar study in Thailand by Minami et al, majority of Salmonella isolates exhibit resistance to tetracycline and streptomycin, and a number of multi-drug resistant Salmonella were reported, showed resistance to ampicillin, tetracycline, streptomycin, gentamicin, chloramphenicol and kanamycin [22] . Dione et al reported that high rate of Salmonella resistance was counted against sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim (75.9%), tetracycline (74.7%) and streptomycin (73.9%) [29] .…”

“…Ellerbroek et al reported 13% prevalence of Salmonella isolates from imported chicken carcass in Bhutan [21] . While Minami et al reported 25% prevalence in different types of meat including chicken in Thailand [22] . Their study shows that Salmonella is more prevalent in the case of chicken or poultry meat.…”

“…Samples (25 g) were transferred to 225 mL of buffered peptone water (BPW) and mixed (IKA Labortechnik Germany) for 10 min at 120 r/min, the mixture sample were incubated at 37 °C for [18][19][20][21][22][23][24] h. Part of inoculated BPW was transferred to two separate enrichment media for isolation of Salmonella and S. aureus.…”

“…Bacterial suspensions were spread on mueller-hinton agar (Merck, Germany). The antibiotic discs were placed over the lawn and incubated at 37 °C for [18][19][20][21][22][23][24] …”

“…Each year, approximately 22.8 million cases of Salmonellosis with a death toll of 37 600 occurred in South East Asia. Salmonella is the leading cause of foodborne diseases in human and animals.…”