Author, as appears in the article.: Mottola A., Bonerba E., Bozzo G., Marchetti P., Celano G., Colao V., Terio V., Tantillo G., Figueras M., Di Pinto A.
Department: Ciències Mèdiques Bàsiques
URV's Author/s: Figueras Salvat, María Josefa
Keywords: Pre-cut vegetables (ready-to-eat) Emerging food-borne pathogens Arcobacter cryaerophilus Arcobacter butzleri emerging food-borne pathogens arcobacter cryaerophilus arcobacter butzleri
Abstract: Given that changes in consumer food behaviours have led to an increase in the demand for pre-cut ready-to-eat (RTE) vegetables, and that few data are currently available on the occurrence of Arcobacter spp. in such foods, the aim of the present study was to assess the occurrence of Arcobacter spp. that carry virulence-associated genes on pre-cut RTE vegetables, using cultural and molecular methods. Arcobacter was detected using biomolecular identification methods in 44/160 (27.5%) of the samples, of which 40/44 (90.9%) isolates corresponded to A. butzleri and 4/44 (9.1%) to A. cryaerophilus. Studying the incidence of 9 virulence-associated genes revealed the widespread distribution of these genes among the Arcobacter isolates tested. The results obtained in our research provided plenty of information on the health risks associated with the direct consumption of raw vegetables, and highlight the need to implement further studies at each level of the production chain, in order to obtain further information to help protect human health.
Thematic Areas: Zootecnia / recursos pesqueiros Saúde coletiva Safety, risk, reliability and quality Química Odontología Nutrição Microbiology Medicine (miscellaneous) Medicina veterinaria Medicina ii Medicina i Interdisciplinar Geociências General medicine Food science & technology Food science Farmacia Engenharias ii Ciências biológicas iii Ciências biológicas ii Ciências biológicas i Ciências agrárias i Ciência de alimentos Biotecnología Biodiversidade
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 01681605
Author's mail: mariajose.figueras@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-2268-8980
Record's date: 2024-08-31
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168160516303610
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: International Journal Of Food Microbiology. 236 (7): 33-37
APA: Mottola A., Bonerba E., Bozzo G., Marchetti P., Celano G., Colao V., Terio V., Tantillo G., Figueras M., Di Pinto A. (2016). Occurrence of emerging food-borne pathogenic Arcobacter spp. isolated from pre-cut (ready-to-eat) vegetables. International Journal Of Food Microbiology, 236(7), 33-37. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2016.07.012
Article's DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2016.07.012
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2016
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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