Table 2.
Antimicrobial resistance of S. aureus strains isolated from RTE food and raw food samples (processed raw meat, fish and milk) in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
| Antimicrobial Agents | Resistant Breakpoint (zone of diameter in mm) (CLSI, 2012) | No. (%) of resistant S. aureus isolates |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ready-to-eat foods (n = 26) | Raw foods (n = 9) | Total isolates (n = 35) | ||
| Erythromycin | ≤13 | 20 (77) | 6 (66.7) | 26 (74.3) |
| Ciprofloxacin | ≤15 | 12 (46.2) | 5 (55.6) | 17 (48.6) |
| Oxacillin | ≤10 | 7 (27) | 4 (44.4) | 11 (31.4) |
| Cefoxitin | ≤21 | 6 (23.1) | 3 (33.3) | 9 (25.7) |
| Amoxicillin-clavulanic acid | ≤19 | 4 (15.4) | 3 (33.3) | 7 (20) |
| Tetracycline | ≤14 | 5 (19.2) | 2 (22.2) | 7 (20) |
| Trimethoprim- sulfamethoxazole | ≤10 | 4 (15.4) | 0 (0) | 4 (11.4) |
| Imipenem | ≤13 | 2 (7.7) | 0 (0) | 2 (5.7) |
| Gentamicin | ≤12 | 1 (3.8) | 0 (0) | 1 (2.9) |
| Chloramphenicol | ≤12 | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |