Prevalence of Lsteria monocytogenes in frozen fish in Basrah City markets

الملخص EN

The present study was performed on 80 samples of frozen fish.

The samples were collected from different shops in Basrah city.

Listeria spp.

was isolated (13 %) of frozen fish, also they were counted in the examined samples.

The mean counts were 8.75 x 102 CFU / g.

of the fish.

L.

monocytogenes differentially identified from other Listeria species and could he isolated at (5 %) in frozen fish.

The drug susceptibility characterization of L.

monocytogenes cleared that all isolates (100 %) were resistant to Ampicilline and Gentanicine.

while the other used antibiotics showed different degrees of antimicrobial sensitivity reactions for streptomycin, Tetracycline, Rifampicine and cefotexim.