Occurrence of Clostridium perfringens contamination in poultry feed ingredients: Isolation, identification and its antibiotic sensitivity pattern
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Date
2017
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Elsevier
Abstract
This work has been undertaken to study the occurrence of Clostridium perfringens contamination in the
poultry feed ingredients and find out its in-vitro antibiotic sensitivity pattern to various antimicrobial
drugs. Two hundred and ninety-eight poultry feed ingredient samples received at Poultry Disease
Diagnosis and Surveillance Laboratory, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu in South India were screened for the
presence of C. perfringens. The organisms were isolated in Perfringens agar under anaerobic condition and
subjected to standard biochemical tests for confirmation. In vitro antibiogram assay has been carried out
to determine the sensitivity pattern of the isolates to various antimicrobial drugs. One hundred and one
isolates of C. perfringens were obtained from a total of 298 poultry feed ingredient samples. Overall
positivity of 33.89% could be made from the poultry feed ingredients. Highest level of C. perfringens
contamination was detected in fish meal followed by bone meal, meat and bone meal and dry fish.
Antibiogram assay indicated that the organisms are highly sensitive to gentamicin (100%), chlortetracycline
(96.67%), gatifloxacin (93.33%), ciprofloxacin (86.67%), ofloxacin (86.67%) and lincomycin
(86.67%). All the isolates were resistant to penicillin-G. Feed ingredients rich in animal proteins are the
major source of C. perfringens contamination.
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TNV_AN_2017_3(309-312)
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Veterinary Science