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ABSTRACT

Antimicrobial resistant foodborne E. coli is a major public health threat by increasing AMR prevalence by increments in resistant traits or genes pool by contaminating foods. Several factors responsible for resistance i.e., Overuse of antibiotics for the purpose of prevention, control and treatment of disease as well as for growth promotion in food animals. Organization for economic cooperation and development (OECD) estimates antimicrobial use in food animal globally from 63,151 tons in 2010 to 105,596 tons by 2030 – an increase of 67%. Antibiotics during agricultural production and lack of appropriate food processing, consumption by human being and excretion in environment will dominate the resistant traits or gene pool. Being a natural commensal organism of intestinal flora E. coli act as an indicator bacterium of humans and animals. So, prevalence of antimicrobial resistance in population can be compare by using this indicator organism which also have ability to indicate presence of other pathogenic bacteria in surroundings. Foodborne pathogenic E. coli involve intestinal diarrhoeagenic E. coli (DEC) and extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli (ExPEC) responsible for causing serious health hazard infections in humans as well as animals. The higher extent of antimicrobial resistance prevalence found in indicator bacteria as E. coli will considered as a good indicator of the selective pressure of antibiotic use and the pa estimate the burden of prevalence of antimicrobial resistant foodborne E. coli because of higher public health threat as well as epidemiological perspective as the occupational population closely associated with ecology of livestock, agriculture and antibiotic use might be responsible for transmission of antimicrobial resistant genes or resistant traits. So, the conclusion can be with low prevalence of antimicrobial resistance should be considered a distinguishing quality and safety mark. In this fi ght against AMR, it is important to realize the contribution/Prevalence of foodborne E. coli.

Keywords: AMR, antibiotics, E. coli, food safety, prevalence, public health