Open AccessMicrobiological status of some street iftar items collected from chalk bazar in Dhaka city, Bangladesh
Author(s) -
Ifra Tun Nur,
Mesbah Talukder,
T.R. Das,
Muhammad Asaduzzaman,
Farahnaaz Feroz,
Saurab Kishore Munshi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
food research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.218
H-Index - 7
ISSN - 2550-2166
DOI - 10.26656/fr.2017.5(3).617
Subject(s) - antibiogram , capital city , antibiotic resistance , veterinary medicine , bacteria , biology , antibiotics , geography , microbiology and biotechnology , medicine , genetics , economic geography
In Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh and one of the most densely populated cities of theworld, different categories of street foods are widely consumed by all classes of people,especially for iftar during the holy month of Ramadan. The objective of this research wasto assess the microbiological quality of street iftar food items collected from a street inChalk Bazar locality of Dhaka along with the antibiogram profile of the bacterial isolates.A total of 74 samples belong to ten different categories of street food items and 8 differenttypes of street vended juices were collected aseptically. The bacteria were isolated byusing different culture media. The antibiotic susceptibility of the bacterial isolates wasdetermined by the disc diffusion method. In case of street food total viable bacteria (onaverage of 6 log10 CFU/g). On the other hand, an extended number of total viable bacteriawere encountered in all juices samples which also on an average of 6 log10 CFU/mL.Fungi, Pseudomonas spp. and Staphylococcus spp. were found in the majority of thesamples irrespective of the categories. Few samples were contaminated with Escherichiacoli and Klebsiella spp. Most of the cultivated bacterial strains exhibited resistance againstcommonly used antibiotics, while several isolates were noted to be multi-drug resistant.The present study revealed a huge array of microbial load which indicates a high risk topublic health. Presence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria heightened the risk by many foldsand urges the need for frequent surveillance.