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ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SALMONELLA FROM FOOD HANDLERS

Desalegn Amenu

College of Natural and Computational Science, Wollega University, P.Box, 395, Nekemte, Ethiopia
 

 Corresponding authors email:wadadesalegn@gmail.com
 

Accepted  10 March 2016

Food is an important vehicle for the spread of infectious agents causing disease resulting to appreciable morbidity and mortality. Food handlers play an important role in ensuring food safety. However, in developing countries like Ethiopia the proportion of certified food handlers and their carrier status is not well studied. Salmonellosis is one of such diseases that can be transmitted from chronic asymptomatic salmonella carriers especially the food handlers. The main aim of this paper is to review the isolation and identification method of salmonella from food handles. As some study revealed that, isolation rate of Salmonella species was obtained and all isolates were resistant at least to one of antimicrobials tested. Accordingly, food handlers could be a source of salmonellosis unless carriers treated after periodic screening and other preventive measures taken. Antimicrobial resistance profile also reflects it would be a serious problem in near future.

Key words: Antimicrobial, Cross sectional study, Food handler, Isolate, Salmonella



 

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