Antibiotic Susceptibility Pattern of Enterobacteriaceae Isolated from Raw Meat and Ghanaian Coin Currencies at Cape Coast Metropolis, Ghana: The Public Health Implication

Table 2: Multiple antibiotic resistant pattern of Enterobacteriaceae isolated from meat source at Kotokuraba market in Cape Coast Metropolis.

Isolates	Sources	Drug Resistant pattern	% isolates
Escherichia coli	GT1	CRX_r-CHL_r-AMP_r	4.8
Enterobacter spp	GT2	CRX_i-AMP_r-COT_r	3.9
Escherichia coli	GT3	CRX_r-CHL_r-AMP_r-COT_r-GEM_r	8.6
Proteus spp.	GT4	CRX_i-CHL_i-AMP_r-TET_r-AMK_i	2.7
Proteus spp.	BF1	CRX_i-AMP_r-TET_i	6.2
Proteus spp.	BF2	CRX_r-CHL_i-AMP_r	12.4
Escherichia coli	BF3	CRX_i-CHL_i-AMP_r-TET_r-COT_r	15.5
Pseudomonas spp	BF4	CRX_i-AMP_r-TET_r-CTX_i-GEN_r	3.5
Escherichia coli	BF5	CRX_r-CHL_i-AMP_r-TET_r-COT_r	6.4

GEN_r/i= Gentamicin resistant/intermediate COT_r/i=cotrimoxazole resistant/intermediate AMK_r/i= Amikacin resistant/intermediate CTX_r/i= Cefotaxime resistant/intermediate TET_r/i=Tetracyclin resistant/intermediate AMP_r/i=Ampicilin resistant/intermediate CHL_r/i=Chloramphenicol resistant/intermediate CRX_r/i= Cefuroxime resistant/intermediate GT= chevon (Goat carcass) BF=Beef (Cattle carcass)