Detection of multidrug resistant Salmonella spp. from healthy and diseased broilers having potential public health significance

Poultry farming has become a profitable and dependable agricultural business in Bangladesh. In addition, it plays a momentous role in the employment generation and economic growth of Bangladesh [1]. Poultry provides additional income to rural people [2]. Furthermore, poultry delivers about 37% of the total meat supply to the people of Bangladesh and covers more than 12.5% of total daily proteins per capita [3]. But the entry of different infectious diseases e.g. salmonellosis, avian colibacillosis, mycoplasmosis, fowl cholera, avian influenza, Newcastle disease, infectious bronchitis, aspergillosis, and others hinder the further advancement of poultry production [4]. Among them, multidrug resistant (MDR) Salmonella spp. are deemed as major botherations in the uplifting of Bangladesh’s poultry sector by causing drastic poultry illness and deaths annually [5].