Assessment of bacteriological quality of ready to eat food vended in streets of Silchar city, Assam, India

I Sharma, JA MazumdarIndian Journal of Medical Microbiology 2014 32(2):169-171A total of 37 street vended food samples were examined for bacterial and the colony forming units counts ranged from 4.5 × 10 5 to 1.12 × 10 6 . The isolates were identified as Escherichia coli (37.5%), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (3.57%), Staphylococcus aureus (14.20%), Salmonella sp. (5.36%), Klebsiella sp. (10.71%), Shigella sp. (19.64%) and Enterobacter sp. (8.93%) respectively. All the 56 isolates were susceptible to ciprofloxacin while their susceptibility to the other drugs varied. These findings demonstrated that the ready-to-eat foods vended in Silchar city constitute an important potential hazard to human health and provision of health education to the vendors would improve quality of street foods.

Source: Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology - April 2, 2014 Category: Microbiology Authors: I SharmaJA Mazumdar Source Type: research