Open AccessCharacterization, prevalence and antibiogram study of Staphylococcus aureus in poultry
Author(s) -
Yeasmeen Ali,
Md. Ashraful Islam,
Nazmul Hasan Muzahid,
Mohd Omar Faruk Sikder,
Amzad Hossain,
Lolo Wal Marzan
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
asian pacific journal of tropical biomedicine/asian pacific journal of tropical biomedicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.507
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 2588-9222
pISSN - 2221-1691
DOI - 10.1016/j.apjtb.2016.12.001
Subject(s) - staphylococcus aureus , antibiogram , sccmec , antibiotics , penicillin , microbiology and biotechnology , antibiotic resistance , veterinary medicine , methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus , medicine , biology , meticillin , antibacterial agent , bacteria , micrococcaceae , genetics
Objective: To reveal the presence of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) (MRSA) in poultry samples and to determine the antibiogram pattern against five antibiotics.Methods: Samples from different poultry farm of Chittagong city, Bangladesh were examined for S. aureus by different biochemical tests and confirmed as MRSA by identifying the presence of mecA gene using PCR. Antibiotic resistance pattern in S. aureus was determined by antibiotic disk diffusion method.Results: In this study, a total of 60 samples (30 from nasal swabs and 30 from cloacal swabs) were used, of which 54 were confirmed as S. aureus by different biochemical tests. Among these, 12 were confirmed as MRSA by detecting mecA gene using PCR. During antibiogram study, both nasal and cloacal samples showed the highest resistance against penicillin-G and the lowest resistance was observed against neomycin.Conclusions: Based on the present study, it can be said that different antibiotics are used extensively in poultry that leads to MRSA and is alarming for human health