Myla S. Chakravarty, P. R. C. Ganesh, D. Amaranth, B. Shanthi Sudha and M. Subhashini
The incidence of Escherichia coli in the meat samples of shrimp, fresh and marine fish, chicken and mutton at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh and its resistance to antibiotics - ampicillin, chloramphenicol, ciprofloxacin, cotrimoxazole, gentamicin, nalidixic acid, nitrofurantoin, penicillin-G, norfloxacin and tetracycline. The bacterial load was higher in chicken and mutton than the shrimp and fish meat. The antibiotic resistance of E. coli was 100% towards pencillin-G, 90% to tetracycline and ampicillin, 40% to nitrofurantoin and chloramphenicol, 20% to gentamicin, norfloxacin, nalidixic acid and ciprofloxacin. It was only 10% resistance to co-trimoxazole. The resistance of E. coli in mutton sample was higher than the remaining samples. Chicken stood next followed by fresh water fish and shrimp.
