Occurrence and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of
Proteus mirabilis from Chicken Carcass
Kainat Ishaq1, Aqsa Ahmad1,
Azhar Rafique2, Rizwan Aslam1, Sultan Ali1,
M. Akbar Shahid3, Noreen Sarwar4, M. Aamir
Aslam1, Bilal Aslam5 and Muhammad Imran Arshad1*
1Institute
of Microbiology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, 38040,
Pakistan; 2Department of Zoology, GC University
Faisalabad, Pakistan; 3Department of Pathobiology,
Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Bahauddin Zakariya University,
Multan-60800, Pakistan; 4Institute of Microbiology,
University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, 54700,
Pakistan; 5Department of Microbiology, GC University
Faisalabad, Pakistan *Corresponding author:
drimranarshad@yahoo.com
Abstract
The present study aimed to evaluate the
prevalence of Proteus mirabilis (P. mirabilis) in poultry meat and
to find its antimicrobial susceptibility. P. mirabilis has been
frequently isolated from poultry and poses potential threat to public health.
The pathogen resides in broiler’s intestine, so it can be a source of
contamination of chicken carcass in a slaughterhouse. A total of 50 samples of
chicken carcass (from liver n=15, from intestine n=15, from thigh n=11 and from
wings n=9) were taken from Faisalabad and cultured on Xylose Lysine Deoxycholate
agar (XLD) for isolation and purification of P. mirabilis. Percent
positivity of P. mirabilis in liver was found to be 60%, 46% in
intestine, 36% in thigh and 33% in wings. P. mirabilis isolates showed
high resistance to tetracycline (100%) and piperacillin (91.3%) while low
resistance was shown to ceftazidime (8.6%). The study concluded that chicken
could be the source of P. mirabilis and it can be a source of infection
in human and animals.
To Cite This Article:
Ishaq K, Ahmad A, Rafique A, Aslam R, Ali S,
Shahid MA, Sarwar N, Aslam MA, Aslam B, Arshad MI 2022. Occurrence and
antimicrobial susceptibility of Proteus mirabilis from chicken carcass.
Pak Vet J, 42(4): 576-579.
http://dx.doi.org/10.29261/pakvetj/2022.026