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FOODBORNE PATHOGENS AND DISEASE
卷 12, 期 9, 页码 795-799出版社
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
DOI: 10.1089/fpd.2015.1977
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- Export Promotion Technology Development Program of iPET - Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries [313010-3]
- KU Research Professor Program of Konkuk University
Ready-to-eat (RTE) foods such as prepared vegetables are becoming an increasingly popular food choice. Since RTE vegetables are not commonly sterilized by heat treatment, contamination with foodborne pathogens such as Bacillus cereus (B. cereus) is a major concern. The objective of this study was to assess the quantitative prevalence and toxin gene profiles of B. cereus strains isolated from RTE vegetables. We found that 70 of the 145 (48%) tested retail vegetable salad and sprout samples were positive for B. cereus. The B. cereus isolates harbored at least one enterotoxin gene. The detection rates of nheABC, hblCDA, cytK, and entFM enterotoxin genes among all isolates were 97.1%, 100%, 81.4%, and 98.6%, respectively. No strain carried the emetic toxin genes. Only 4 strains (5.7%) from the 70 isolates were psychrotrophic and were able to grow at 7 degrees C. All of the psychrotrophic isolates possessed at least 1 enterotoxin gene.
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