Emerging Multidrug Resistant Metallo-β-Lactamases (MBLs) Positive Klebsiella Species from Cloacal Swabs of Poultry Birds

Ejikeugwu Chika^1*, Iroha Ifeanyichukwu¹, Oguejiofor Benigna¹, Orji Okoro Loveday², Eluu Stanley³, Okafor Collins⁴, Ovia Kenneth⁴ and Ezeador Chika⁵

¹Department of Applied Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, P.M.B 053, Ebonyi State, Nigeria

²Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna state, Nigeria

³Department of Biological Sciences (Biotechnology Programme), Faculty of Sciences, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, P.M.B 053, Ebonyi State, Nigeria

⁴Department of Biological Sciences, Evangel University, Akaeze, Ebonyi State, Nigeria

⁵Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, P.M.B 5001, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, Nigeria