<p>Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), an increasing menace to global public health causes about 700 000 deaths annually and an untold number of treatment failures in animals. Resistant pathogens in food animals and the consequent cross-contamination of edible carcass tissues constitute a significant hazard on diseases’ treatment outcomes in humans. We determined the carriage of E. coli and Salmonella spp in fecal and mesenteric lymph node (MLN) among apparently healthy pigs and characterized their antimicrobial susceptibility patterns.</p>