Incidence of some anaerobic bacteria isolated from chicken meat products with special reference to Clostridium perfringens
benha veterinary medical journal • 2019
Publication Information
Authors
Shaltout, F. A.1; Zakaria, I. M.2; Nabil, M.E.3.
Keywords
chicken meat, Clostridium perfringens, heat resistant spores, Nagler’s reaction, other anaerobes.
Journal
benha veterinary medical journal
Publisher
faculty of veterinary medicine benha university
Volume
33
Issue
2
Pages
292-304
publication.type
International
Paper Link
Open Link
Supplementary Materials
Fahim Aziz El-Dein Mohamed Shaltout_69.pdf
Abstract
Anaerobic spore formers, especially Clostridium perfringens, represent one of the most prevalent bacterial food poisoning outbreaks which mostly related to consumption of contaminated meat and meat products, therefore, a total of 125 random raw and half cooked chicken meat samples represented by (breast, thigh, nuggets, panée and frankfurter “25 of each”) were collected from various retail stores and supermarkets in Qualyubia governorate. Results illustrated that, raw thigh samples were the most contaminated with anaerobic bacterial counts in incidence of 84%. The identified strains were C. perfringens, C. sporogenes, C. bifermenants, C. butyricum and C. sordelli in 21.6, 16, 8, 3.2 and 3.2%, respectively. Regarding to the incidence of vegetative and spore of C. perfringens were 24, 32, 20, 16, 16% and 16, 20, 16, 8, 8% in examined raw breast, raw thigh, nuggets, panée and frankfurter, respectively. 33.3% of isolates were lecithinase positive strains and typed as C. perfringens type A (6.4%), type D (0.8%); in absence of neither type B nor D. Experimental heat resistant C. perfringens spores were six heat resistant strains; where all isolates were of type A. The high incidence of these food poisoning microorganisms in chicken meat may indicate defects in sanitary conditions and handling in processing plant.
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