Status on methicillin resistant and multiple drug resistant Staphylococcus aureus in fishes of Cochin and Mumbai coast, India
Status on methicillin resistant and multiple drug resistant Staphylococcus aureus in fishes of Cochin and Mumbai coast, India
Date
2015
Authors
Visnuvinayagam, S.
Joseph, T.C.
Murugadas, V.
Chakrabarti, R.
Lalitha, K.V.
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Triveni Enterprises, Lukhnow (India)
Abstract
The present study was carried out to estimate the prevalence of Methicillin resistant and multiple Drug resistant and(MDR) S. aureus in retail fishery outlets of Cochin and Mumbai coast of India. In total 252 Staphylococcus aureus isolates were obtained from 105 fish samples and further confirmed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using 16SrDNA region specific primer for S. aureus. In antibiogram analysis against 20 antimicrobial agents, highest resistant was found to erythromycine (31.14%), followed by azithromycin (25.79%) nd clarithromycin (30.24%). One S. aureus isolate was resistant to methicillin which was further confirmed by PCR using mecA gene primers specific for MRSA. The higher incidence of MDR S. aureus and the presence of MRSA in fish indicate high high risk to public health
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Keywords
antibiogram, mecA, MDR, MRSA, Staphylococcus aureus
Citation
Journal of Environmental Biology 2015:36(3), 571-575