Research Article
Microbial Food Safety Risk to Humans Associated with Poultry Feed: The Role of Irradiation
Table 3
Antibiotic resistance patterns of 11 bacterial isolates from feed samples.
| | Antimicrobials | No. of Isolates Tested | Resistant N(%) | Intermediate N(%) | Sensitive N(%) |
| | PEN., AMP., FLX. | 11(100%) | 11(100%) | 0(0) | 0(0) | | ERY. | 11(100%) | 10(90.9%) | 0(0) | 1(9.09%) | | TET. | 11(100%) | 8(72.7%) | 0(0) | 3(27.3%) | | CRX. | 11(100%) | 7(66.6%) | 0(0) | 4(36.4%), | | CTX. | 11(100%) | 5(45.4%) | 0(0) | 6(54.5%) | | CHL., CTR | 11(100%) | 4(36.4%) | 0(0) | 7(66.6%) | | GEN. | 11(100%) | 3(27.3%) | 0(0) | 8(72.7%) | | COT. | 11(100%) | 2(18.2%) | 0(0) | 9(81.8%) |
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PEN= Penicillin, AMP= Ampicillin, FLX= Flucloxacillin, ERY= Erythromycin, TET=Tetracycline, COT= Cotrimoxazole, GEN=Gentamicin, CHL=Chloramphenicol, CTR= Ceftriaxone, CTX= Cefotaxime, and CRX= Cefuroxime.
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