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: arcobacter butzleri arcobacter cryaerophilus emerging food-borne pathogens Arcobacter butzleri Arcobacter cryaerophilus Emerging food-borne pathogens Pre-cut vegetables (ready-to-eat)
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: Biodiversidade Biotecnología Ciência de alimentos Ciências agrárias i Ciências biológicas i Ciências biológicas ii Ciências biológicas iii Engenharias ii Farmacia Food science Food science & technology General medicine Geociências Interdisciplinar Medicina i Medicina ii Medicina veterinaria Medicine (miscellaneous) Microbiology Nutrição Odontología Química Safety, risk, reliability and quality Saúde coletiva Zootecnia / recursos pesqueiros
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: mariajose.figueras@urv.cat
ISSN: 01681605
Author identifier: 0000-0002-2268-8980
Record's date: 2023-02-22
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168160516303610
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
Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
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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