Quotidian of Substantial Strain of Shigella dysenteriae among Ready-To-Eat Fruit Salad Sold in Uli Community

Abstract

Shigella species; a dominant species found in ready-to-eat fruit salads, has been receiving drastically attention not only in causing human infections, but also for its involvement in antibiotic resistant, of which 80% of this resistant genes are encoded in the plasmid. This study was undertaken to evaluate the one-time-sampling study of Shigella dysenteriae among ready - to- eat fruit salads sold in Uli community. Samples were randomly collected from different vendors from different locations in Uli community using standard microbiological techniques. The prevalence of the different strains encountered in the samples were also determined. The study revealed the presence of S. dysenteriae strain 53-3937 (SD53), S. dysenteriae strain 07-3308 (SD07), S. dysenteriae strain BU53W (SDBU), of which 36.00% were positive for Shigella species and the occurrences of SD53, SD07 and SDBU were 50.00%, 19.44%, 30.56% respectively. From the above study, different strains of Shigella species were isolated from ready – to – eat fruit salads sold at Uli community, of which isolate SD53 was predominant strain in the study samples. The findings have shown that the ready - to - eat fruit salad samples studied were contaminated by Shigella species.