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ABSTRACT

Chicken (110) samples were collected from the retail meat shops of different district headquarters of western Utter Pradesh and screened for standard plate count (SPC), coliform count, isolation of various bacterial contaminants and their antibiotic sensitivity pattern. The mean of the log10 counts for SPC and coliforms were 7.0382 cfug-1 and 4.1587cfug-1, respectively. Out of 110 meat samples, 87 were found positive for the presence of multiple bacteria, namely, E. coli (42), Pseudomonas spp. (18), Proteus spp. (19), Klebsiella spp. (23), Bacillus spp. (29), Staphylococcus spp. (37) and Salmonella spp. (4). All the bacterial isolates were subjected to antibiotic sensitivity test by disc diffusion method against commonly used antibiotics, which indicated multi drug resistance.

Keywords: Antibiogram, chicken meat, coliform standard plate count, pathogen