Bacterial load and multi‐drug resistance patterns of some ready‐to‐eat street foods of Dhaka city

Bacterial load and drug resistance pattern associated with some ready-to-eat (RTE) street foods such as Chatpoti, Fuchka, Singara, Panipuri, Ghugni-muri, Chola and water of Dhaka South City Corporation were investigated. Most of the samples were found to be contaminated and the bacterial load ranged from 2.4 × 104 - 9.2 × 106, 1.2 × 103 - 7.3 × 105 and 1.1 × 103 - 1.6 × 106 cfu/g of aerobic heterotrophic, coliform bacteria and Staphylococcus, respectively. The highest coliform load (7.3 × 105 cfu/ml) was found in the water of Gulistan. The highest aerobic heterotrophic bacteria (9.2 × 106 cfu/g) and Staphylococcus (1.6 × 106 cfu/g) were observed in the Chatpoti of Nilkhet. Among the isolated 100 different bacterial colonies,…