Occurrence of Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile in Poultry Giblets at Slaughter and in Retail Pork and Poultry Meat in Southeastern Spain.
J Food Prot
; 84(2): 310-314, 2021 02 01.
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ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT Raw meat and meat products contaminated with Clostridioides difficile could be a vehicle for spreading community-associated C. difficile infection. This study was conducted to determine the occurrence of C. difficile in pork and poultry meat samples (n = 325) from retail establishments and in edible giblet samples (n = 36) from a poultry processing plant in Murcia (southeastern Spain). C. difficile was isolated after selective enrichment from 2% (6 of 361) of the samples, all of which were from the poultry processing plant. These isolates were recovered from 17% (6 of 36) of the edible chicken giblets, i.e., 28% (5 of 18) of the gizzard samples and 6% (1 of 18) of the liver samples. All six C. difficile isolates were negative for toxin A and B genes by PCR assay. These findings indicate that C. difficile can survive in the gastric acid of the chicken gizzard and could be transmitted to other meat products. However, the very low prevalence of C. difficile in the tested samples indicates that retail meat may not be an important source for transmission of C. difficile to humans.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Clostridioides difficile
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Carne Roja
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Carne de Cerdo
Tipo de estudio:
Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Animals
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Humans
País/Región como asunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Food Prot
Año:
2021
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
España