Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 181, Issue -, Pages 77-84Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2014.04.023
Keywords
Campylobacter; Antimicrobial Resistance; Molecular Typing; Broiler Chickens; Food Safety
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Funding
- Key Projects in the National Science & Technology Pillar Program [2012BAK01B02]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [U1031004]
- Special Fund for Agro-scientific Research in the Public Interest [201203040]
- Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China [20100008120001]
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This study was conducted to determine the prevalence and distribution of Campylobacter species along a broiler production chain from farm to retail, and to evaluate the antimicrobial resistance profile of Campylobacter isolates. A total of 259 Campylobacter isolates (C. jejuni n = 106, C. coil n = 153) were isolated from broiler ceca samples (72.5%, 103/142), broiler carcasses (34.1%, 46/135), and retail broiler meat (31.3%, 40/128) samples collected in Shanghai, China. Minimal inhibitory concentrations of six antimicrobials were determined using the agar dilution method. High prevalence of resistance to ciprofloxacin (C. jejuni: 99.1%;C. coil: 100%) and tetracycline (C. jejuni: 100%;C. coil: 98.7%) was detected among the C. jejuni and C. coil isolates. The vast majority of C. coil were resistant to clindamycin (92.2%), gentamicin (95.4%), and erythromycin (94.1%), but only 25.5%, 53.8%, and 16.0% of C.jejuni exhibited resistance to these three antimicrobials, respectively. In contrast, the prevalence of florfenicol resistance in C. jejuni (37.7%) was significantly higher than that in C. coil (7.8%) (P < 0.05). It is noteworthy that all Campylobacter isolates were resistant to one or more antimicrobials, and 71.7% of C. jejuni and 98.0% of C. coil isolates exhibited multi-drug resistance (resistant to three or more antimicrobials). Fifty-five C. jejuni and sixty C. coil isolates, selected from different production stages, species, and antimicrobial resistance patterns, were analyzed by pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), among which 15 unique PFGE patterns (PFGE patterns represented by a single strain) and 31 clusters (PFGE patterns represented by multiple strains) were detected. Furthermore, nearly all of the PFGE patterns of the Campylobacter strains isolated from retail broiler meats overlapped with those of the strains from ceca and slaughterhouse carcasses. Together, these findings revealed the high prevalence of Campylobacter species in a broiler chicken production chain, and the concerning situation of antimicrobial resistance in Campylobacter species. The findings also indicated that Campylobacter isolates from retail broiler meats were associated with fecal contamination in the slaughterhouse, underlying the need for improved measures for reducing carcass contamination in slaughter plants. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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