%0 Journal Article %T Vended foods in Lagos, Nigeria: A potential reservoir for the spread of emerging strains of drug resistant bacteria %A Kabiru Olusegun Akinyem %A Muibat O. Fashola %A Nene Habib %A Esther Akinwande %J Health %P 675-680 %@ 1949-5005 %D 2013 %I Scientific Research Publishing %R 10.4236/health.2013.54089 %X Background and Aims: Food is of paramount importance to the sustenance of human health, on that basis this study was initiated with a view to determining bacterial agents associated with the vended foods and to investigating antibacterial resistance of the isolates. Methods: Twelve food samples from vendors were randomly collected from ten locations within Lagos environs. The food samples were analyzed bacteriologically by standard methods. The isolates were identified and subjected to antimicrobial susceptibility testing using standard procedures. Results: The total plate counts of bacteria recorded was between 2.98 ¡Á 10³ cfu/g in Jollofrice and 4.09 ¡Á 10⁴ cfu/g in Salad. Seventy-six bacterial isolates made up of six genera; Escherichia coli, Salmonella Typhimurium, Alcaligenes spp., Klebsiella pneumoniae, Enterobacter spp., Serratia marcensens and Proteus spp. were identified. Most of the bacterial isolates were moderately sensitive to cotrimoxazole, nalidixic acid, amoxicillin and nitrofurantion except in S. Typhimurium with less than 50% susceptibility. Also over 60% of the pathogens isolated were inhibited by ceftazidime, cefpodoxime, and levofloxacin antibiotics and most strains of E. coli