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JOURNAL OF VETERINARY MEDICAL SCIENCE
Volume 77, Issue 7, Pages 871-873Publisher
JAPAN SOC VET SCI
DOI: 10.1292/jvms.14-0640
Keywords
chicken giblet; chicken meat; chicken products; Escherichia albertii; infection source
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- Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI [24590846]
- Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare of Japan [H24-Shinko-Ippan-005]
- Daido Life Welfare Foundation, Osaka, Japan
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [24590846] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Escherichia albertii occasionally causes food-borne outbreaks of gastroenteritis in humans; however, little is known about the vehicle of transmission. To screen retail chicken products for the presence of E. albertii, 104 retail chicken products were investigated. Portions of enrichment cultures that were PCR-positive for E. albertii (n=3) were sub-cultured on agar medium. Only 2 strains obtained from 2 chicken giblet samples were identified as E. albertii by multi locus sequence typing. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing showed that 1 strain was resistant to streptomycin and sulfisoxazole. Both strains harbored the virulence genes cdt and eae. This study is the first description of E. albertii isolation from retail food, suggesting that chicken products are a potential vehicle of E. albertit transmission.
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