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KMID : 1007520130220010161
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Food Science and Biotechnology
2013 Volume.22 No. 1 p.161 ~ p.165
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Prevalence and Antimicrobial Resistance of Enterococcus spp. Isolated from Meat and Fishery Production in Korea
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Cho Joon-Il
Joo In-Sun
Choi Jun-Hyuk
Jung Kyoung-Hun
Choi Eun-Jeong
Han Min-Kyung
Jeong Sook-Jin
Son Na-Ry
Lee Soon-Ho
Hwang In-Gyun
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Abstract
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From February to October 2011, 209 samples of retail raw meat and fishery products were randomly obtained from 41 grocery stores in Korea and cultured for the presence of Enterococcus spp. Ninety-six enterococcal isolates were recovered from 76 samples, with contamination rates ranging from 18.5% in fishery product samples to 43.9% in chicken samples. Antimicrobial disk susceptibility testing was conducted according to the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute protocol. The antibiotic resistance rates of the 96 enterococci isolates were as follows: tetracycline (TE) 77.1%; erythromycin (E) 50%; rifampin (RD) 44.8%; and vancomycin (VAN) 9.4%. Disk diffusion showed that 9 isolates were resistant to vancomycin. The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) was ≥32 μg/ mL for all 9 isolates, and all were resistant to vancomycin. Among the 9 vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) identified, the vanA gene was carried by 1 Enterococcus durans strain and the vanB gene was carried by 2 Enterococcus faecium, and 1 Enterococcus hirae strains. Further genotyping of the VRE isolates using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) revealed extensive heterogeneity. The VRE were recovered from various animal sources with a particularly high prevalence of E. faecium found in fishery products and chicken.
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KEYWORD
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retail raw meat, fishery product, Enterococcus species, minimum inhibitory concentration, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis
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