​Prevalence of Shigatoxigenic, Enteropathogenic and Antimicrobial Drug Resistant Escherichia coli from Captive Wild Animals of Alipore Zoo, Kolkata, India

Background: Escherichia coli is one of the intestinal microbiota in wildlife as domestic animals and humans. The prevalent serogroups, pathogenic strains like STEC, EPEC antimicrobial resistance less frequently studied captive India. present study was aimed to prevalence resistant E. from wild a zoo Kolkata, Methods: This done during March 2019 June for faecal samples birds mammals. pathotypes STEC were detected presence stx1, stx2 eae virulence genes, respectively. Extended spectrum beta- lactamases, ampC beta-lactamases production susceptibility by standard phenotypic methods. Result: In this study, some E.coli isolates found harbouring genes ETEC EPEC. lactamases produced isolates. Most multidrug-resistant but mostly sensitive gentamicin amikacin. demonstrated that harbour potentially many antimicrobials.