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KMID : 1007520020110060659
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Food Science and Biotechnology
2002 Volume.11 No. 6 p.659 ~ p.664
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Prevalence and Antibiotic Resistance of Arcobacter butzleri in Domestic Raw Meats
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Jang, Jung-Soon
Lee, Young-Duck/Chang, Hak-Gil/Oh, Deog-Hwan/Park, Jong-Hyun
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Abstract
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Arcobacter spp. has been recognized as a newly emerging foodborne pathogen in humans and animal. The prevalence of Arcobacter spp., particulary A. butzleri, from domestic meats and surface water was investigated, and their characteristics were studied. Selective isolation was accomplished with JM enrichment broth and Brucella agar plate supplemented with antibiotics and sheep blood, and the isolates were identified using the multiplex polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment length polymorphism. The isolation rate of A. butzleri from 51 chicken samples was as high as 86%, whereas those from 22 pork and 22 beef samples were 36 and 32%, respectively. Among the 49 among the 59 strains showed multiple-resistance to over four antibiotics, which confirmed that most isolates were multiple-resistant strains. It could raise some health-related concerns in animals and humans when the foodborne-pathogen infection follows after drug treatment. It is high prevalence of multiple-resistant Arcobacter in raw chickens, and the risk of infection by Arcobacter is increasing. More concerns are needed to prevent the foodborne disease because they have not been recognized previously as a risk factor in foods containing chicken meat.
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