Abstract
Objectives: The present investigation aimed to identify the multidrug resistance Escherichia coli bacteria in drinkers of poultry stations located across the Virudhunagar district, Tamil Nadu, India. Because water is the most important part of digestion in the growing chicks of poultry stations, but the quality of water supplied is often negotiated and the water drinkers in poultry farms has becoming the heavenly ground for antibiotic resistance (ABR) generation. Methods: Hence in the present investigation water samples from the drinkers of five poultry stations were collected and analyzed for E. coli resistance bacteria using the disk diffusion method of Bauer–Kirby technique. Results: Screening for ABR against the disc of penicillin, ampicillin, chloramphenicol, streptomycin, kanamycin, and cephalosporin were performed. Among the water samples collected from drinkers of five sampling sites, three sampling sites were found to show resistance bacteria against the different antibacterial disc used. Conclusion: To overcome the development of ABR bacterial strains from poultry stations point of use disinfectant techniques rather than using chlorine and other chemical disinfectants can be developed to alleviate this problem.
Highlights
According to the global food industry prediction it is came to know that the poultry products are at the highest level of production and consumption by the human beings and this scenario will found to increase in years to come
In the poultry farms, antibiotics are applied to the chicks in avoiding the economic loss to the farmers which may arising from the intestinal infections such as colibacillosis, necrotic enteritis, and other diseases generally caused by Salmonella, Escherichia coli, or Clostridium spp. [3]
The present study aimed to identify the resistance developed by the bacteria in the water samples of drinkers kept in the poultry farms for the chicks
Summary
According to the global food industry prediction it is came to know that the poultry products are at the highest level of production and consumption by the human beings and this scenario will found to increase in years to come This increase level in demand already directed towards intense poultry farming methods globally and results in the forming many opportunistic bacteria. This simultaneously increased the use of antibiotics as an integral part of the poultry to treat and prevent infectious diseases and as growth promoters in its early stages of chicks. In the poultry farms, antibiotics are applied to the chicks in avoiding the economic loss to the farmers which may arising from the intestinal infections such as colibacillosis, necrotic enteritis, and other diseases generally caused by Salmonella, Escherichia coli, or Clostridium spp. [3]
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