Antibiotic Susceptibility Profile of Campylobacter Spp from Poultry

Campylobacteriosis is found among the four important worldwide food borne pathogens. In intensive poultry rearing systems in Sudan the use of oral antibiotics is essential to preserve health. Accordingly, there is a high threat for the thermophilic Campylobacter spp inhabitant in the intestinal tract of food animals to develop resistance to commonly used antibiotics. Contamination of broiler meat with pathogenic strains of resistant Campylobacter could, therefore, result in a form of campylobacteriosis in humans that is difficult to treat. To the best of our knowledge, there are no data available relating antibiotic resistant against these bacteria in poultry in Sudan, hence the aim of this study was to determine the antimicrobial susceptibility profile of thermophilic Campylobacter spp. isolated from broiler in Khartoum by disk diffusion. Sensitivity of fourteen isolates against seven antibiotics namely Neomycin, Nitrofurantoin, Nalidixic acid, Gentamycin, Streptomycin, Tetracycline and Erythromycin were studied. The result showed that Nitrofurantoin was found as highly sensitive (64.3%). It was also observed that Erythromycin, Gentamycin, Streptomycin and Neomycin verified the following resistant against isolates recovered 92.9%, 71.4%, 71.4%, 64.3% respectively. Multidrug resistant against five, four, three and two antibiotics was also reported. It was concluded that poultry meat in Khartoum could complicate the antimicrobial therapy in human as multidrug resistant of campylobacter was detected.