Isolation of pathogenic bacteria from Musca domestica and the effect of antibiotics, captured from Vadodara city, Gujarat

Abstract

House fly, Musca domestica has been given more focus as a potential vector in spreading bacterial pathogens. The spread of housefly is season specific and locus bound since it feeds and breeds on dumped organic wastes, open drainages and hospital surroundings are affluent with a copious amount of pathogenic and non-pathogenic microorganisms. Thus, the aim of the study was to isolate and classify different types of bacteria and prove M. domestica as a carrier. The bacteria were isolated with the help of media using biochemical estimation and pathogenecity was tested checking its antibiotic susceptibility. The result obtained showed that the pathogenic load of bacteria was more among which, Pseudomonas sp was found to be maximum in all the study sites. Thus, the study suggests that the house fly is a dominant carrier for pathogenic bacteria and can be considered to be a vector for several infectious pathogens that are antibiotic resistant.