The Bacteriology of Fried Ready-To-Eat Foods Sold In Enugu Metropolis, Nigeria

Chinedum, Ochei Kingsley; Ifeanyi, Obeagu Emmanuel; Vivian, Aniukwu; Stanley, Mbajiuka Chinedu

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“…Four (4) different ready-to-eat fried foods namely: potato, fish, bean cake and yam. The six (6) bacterial species (Tables 2 and 3) isolated from this study correlates to the reports of [30] that isolated similar organisms from fried yam, potato, bean cake and plantain sold in Enugu metropolis namely: E. coli, S. aureus, Salmonella sp, Shigella sp, Proteus sp and Klebsiella sp and Bacillus cereus. The studies of [31] documented the isolation of shiga-toxin producing E. coli from ready-to-drink milk products namely: cheese (wara) and fermented cow milk (nunu) sold in Abeokuta, Ogun State.…”

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“…This, however, calls for a public health concern. The phenotypic antibiotics profile (Table 4) shows that all the isolates were 100% resistant to clindamycin and erythromycin, and 100% susceptible to nitrofurantoin which is similar to the reports of [30,29,32,33] while the multiple antibiotic resistant (MAR) index which signifies the ratio between the number of antibiotics an organism is resistant to and the total number of antibiotics it is been exposed to is presented in figure 2. It was observed that Shigella spp.…”

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Bacteriological Assessment of Fried-Ready-to Eat (Rte) Vended Foods Sold in Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria

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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the bacteriological profile of Enterobacteriaceae from ready-to-eat (RTE) fried foods and to also screen for the presence of shiga-toxins, intimin and haemolysin genes which are indicator genes for food-borne infections and diseases. The morphological and biochemical characterizations were carried out using standard isolation techniques while enumeration was done using a colony counter. To study the resistance and susceptibility pattern of the isolated Enterobacteriaceae, the characterized isolates were subjected to antibiotics susceptibility test using the Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion method. The presence of stx 1 and 2 (shiga toxin genes), eaeA (intimin gene) and hylA (haemolysin gene) were screened for in the multidrug resistant (MDR) isolates. Six (6) species of bacteria were isolated from the RTE food samples namely: Proteus spp (20%), Escherichia coli (60%), Salmonella spp (30%), Klebsiella spp (30%), Staphylococcus spp (20%) and Shigella spp (50%) while the colonial count ranged from 60×10 5 -299×10 3 . The phenotypic antibiotics profile result showed that 60% of the multi-drug resistant organisms harboured stx1 and 2 while 40% harboured hylA. However, none of the MDR isolates were positive for eaeA. In conclusion, commercially vended RTE food handlers should be continuously educated on the importance of basic food hygiene and sanitation.

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