Next Article in Journal
Fosfomycin, a Therapeutic Option for Infections Produced by Multiple Drug-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae
Previous Article in Journal
Development of Antimicrobial Packaging Materials for Food Preservation Using Bacteriocin from Lactobacillus casei
 
 
Microbiology Research is published by MDPI from Volume 11 Issue 2 (2020). Previous articles were published by another publisher in Open Access under a CC-BY (or CC-BY-NC-ND) licence, and they are hosted by MDPI on mdpi.com as a courtesy and upon agreement with PAGEPress.
Font Type:
Arial Georgia Verdana
Font Size:
Aa Aa Aa
Line Spacing:
Column Width:
Background:
Article

Prevalence and Diversity of Arcobacter spp. in Retail Chicken Meat in Turkey

by
Celenk Molva
1,* and
Halil Ibrahim Atabay
1,2
1
Department of Food Engineering, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey
2
Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Sifa University, Izmir, Turkey
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Microbiol. Res. 2016, 7(1), 6578; https://doi.org/10.4081/mr.2016.6578
Submission received: 3 May 2015 / Revised: 7 June 2015 / Accepted: 7 June 2015 / Published: 27 July 2016

Abstract

Arcobacters are food and waterborne pathogens associated with human and animal infections. The objective of the present study was to investigate the prevalence and diversity of Arcobacter spp. in commercially sold chicken meat in İzmir region of Turkey. For this purpose, 100 samples including legs (n = 40), 17 chicken quarters (n = 17), drumstickers (n = 16), breasts (n = 11), wings (n = 10), and carcasses (n = 6) were collected from different retail markets. A total of 65 isolates were confirmed as Arcobacter spp. from 55 samples by genus-specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The prevalence of Arcobacter spp. was 32.5, 81.3, 64.7, 72.7, 83.3, and 50% for legs, drumstickers, chicken quarters, breasts, carcasses and wings, respectively. Based on the multiplex-PCR, most of the isolates were identified as A. butzleri (n = 45, 80%), followed by A. cryaerophilus (n = 2, 3.6%), A. skirrowii (n = 1, 1.8%) and 17 isolates (30.9%) could not be identified at the species level.
Keywords: A. butzleri; pathogen; chicken; multiplex-PCR A. butzleri; pathogen; chicken; multiplex-PCR

Share and Cite

MDPI and ACS Style

Molva, C.; Atabay, H.I. Prevalence and Diversity of Arcobacter spp. in Retail Chicken Meat in Turkey. Microbiol. Res. 2016, 7, 6578. https://doi.org/10.4081/mr.2016.6578

AMA Style

Molva C, Atabay HI. Prevalence and Diversity of Arcobacter spp. in Retail Chicken Meat in Turkey. Microbiology Research. 2016; 7(1):6578. https://doi.org/10.4081/mr.2016.6578

Chicago/Turabian Style

Molva, Celenk, and Halil Ibrahim Atabay. 2016. "Prevalence and Diversity of Arcobacter spp. in Retail Chicken Meat in Turkey" Microbiology Research 7, no. 1: 6578. https://doi.org/10.4081/mr.2016.6578

Article Metrics

Back to TopTop