Antimicrobial Profiling of Bacteria Isolated from Fish Sold at Informal Market in Mufakose, Zimbabwe.

The number of infections caused by antibiotic resistant bacteria is rising worldwide. Fish from multisource pollution waters can harbour multidrug-resistant bacteria that can be disseminated to humans through eating or contact of contaminated fish. A cross-sectional study was carried out to (i) isolate and phenotypically identify bacteria from 36 fish samples from informal market in Mufakose, Harare, and (ii) determine the antibiotic sensitivity pattern of the isolated bacteria against ten available antibiotics (ampicillin 10 g, gentamycin 30 g, penicillin G 10 g, erythromycin 15 g, tetracycline 30 g, kanamycin 30 g, neomycin 10 g, cloxacillin 5 g, lincomycin 15 g, and sulfamethoxazole 25 g) using the Kirby-Bauer disk agar diffusion method.