journal of kerbala university

The bacteria Listeria monocytogenes were isolated from food samples different proportions of isolation as following:; 3.33% from freezing chicken meat; 10% in fish breeding aquarium and 10% from living fish gills.
The isolates were diagnosed by biochemical tests and cultured on differential culture media.The sensitivity of isolates to different antibiotics were tests,it was appeared that all isolates were resist in prportion(100% to bacitracin; trimoxazole and nalidixic acid and sensitive in proportion 100% to chloramphenicol and amoxicillin and (30%) to pencillin G.