10.22376/ijpbs.2019.10.1.p1-12 Volume 4 Issue 1 2013 (January - March) The present work was aimed to evaluate the antimicrobial resistance pattern in lessThan i greaterThan Vibrio lessThan /i greaterThan lessThan i greaterThan parahaemolyticus lessThan /i greaterThan isolates from seafoods. A total of 56 lessThan i greaterThan V. parahaemolyticus lessThan /i greaterThan isolates could be recovered and identified from various seafoods sold at retail shops of Mysore and they were tested for their sensitivity against 27 antibiotics of varied nature. About 3.6% of these isolates were found to possess the virulent associated genes, lessThan i greaterThan tdh lessThan /i greaterThan and lessThan i greaterThan trh. lessThan /i greaterThan MAR index analysis illustrated resistance between 0.00- 0.52 and among these 26.8% were multiple drug resistant. The bacterial strains were predominantly resistant to Oxacillin and Pencillin (≥ 72%), while no resistance was observed against Ceftriaxone, Norfloxacin, Ciprofloxacin, oloxacin, Streptomycin, Gentamycin, Neomycin and Amikacin. In conclusion, significant numbers of lessThan i greaterThan V. parahaemolyticus lessThan /i greaterThan strains were found to be resistant to antibiotics commonly used as therapeutic agents, feed supplement and growth promoters, indicating a need for supervised use of antibiotics and of frequent surveillance of judicious lessThan i greaterThan V. parahaemolyticus lessThan /i greaterThan strains for antimicrobial resistance. RAKSHA AJITPRASAD MANIYANKODE, JOSEPH JEYABALAJI KINGSTON,PUJA SHARMA AND HARSH VARDHAN BATRA V. parahaemolyticus, Antibiotic resistance, Mar index, Multidrug resistance 1029-1036