Pangawkar, G. R.Kumar, Naresh2018-11-282018-11-281989http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810084555Various aerobic enteropathogens isolated from 39 meat, 32 meat products, 36 swab, 23 fish and 8 fish pakoda samples were Esci erichia coli (13.1%), Salmonella Typhimurium (2.1%), Klebsiella pneumoniae 15.2%), Prtoeus spp. (15.2%) and Enterobacter spp. (17.3%).Morphologicall:, and biochemically, majority of the isolates gave typical characteristics of family Enterobacteriaceae.Predominent serotype isolated was 0:8 (7) followed by 0:78 (3), 0:106 (3), 0:20 (2), 0:29 (2) and 0:22 (1) out of 18 E. coli isolates while serology of Salmonella revealed the predominence of Sal, nonella Typhimurium (4,5,12:i:1,2). Total bacterial load of different meat samples ranged between 1.1x102 c.f.u./g to1.4x106 c.f.u./g of the sample. Out of 100 different isolates obtained, more than 18.5 per cent were found to be enteroto (igenic by rabbit illeal loop method and rabbit skin vasopermeability factor test mu a positive correlation has been found between these two methods for enterotoxigenicity and are of public health significance in food poisoning under favourE ble environment. The serotypes (0:8, 0:20, 0:22, and 0:106) of E. col, are known to be enteropathogenic and important from public health point of view.EnglishThesis