Isolation and identification of Salmonella from poultry meat samples - a major food borne zoonotic disease

Prabhusaran N; Pramila M; Prabhakar YK

Volume : VIII, Issue : VII, July - 2018

Isolation and identification of Salmonella from poultry meat samples - a major food borne zoonotic disease

Prabhusaran N, Pramila M, Prabhakar Yk

Abstract :

Poultry products are easily contaminated by various microbial sources. The main objective of this present investigation is to determine the presence of Salmonellain the poultry meat samples. A total of seventy twochicken meat samples were included for the microbiological determination and analysis of Salmonella sp. The meat samples that are showing lesions were inoculated into nutrient oth and tetrathionate oth. Further direct oth gram staining, isolation of Salmonella in selective media, biochemical tests were done for the confirmation of the bacterial pathogen. Out of seventy two samples, thirty two confirmed the presence of Salmonella infection. Antibiotic susceptibility test provided the idea to choose the antibiotics to treat the hen highlighted that gentamycinand ciprofloxacin are effective. Further, the public health department has to take necessary initiative to investigate the poultry samples for the determination of infectious agents for avoiding the spread of such enteropathogenic infections to humans.