116447

Prevalence of Aeromonas spp and their virulence factors isolated from frozen chicken meat products

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Meat hygiene

Abstract

A total of hundred samples of frozen chicken products represented by breast, thigh, nuggets and burger (25 of each) were randomly collected to study the prevalence of Aeromonas spp and their virulence factors in the examined products. the study showed that the mean values of psychrotrophic count were 8.17×103± 1.42×103, 1.95×104± 2.06×104, 3.63×104± 0.89×104 and 7.58×104± 1.16×104, respectively, and the mean values of Aeromonas counts were 9.34×102± 2.01×102, 1.66×103± 0.28×103, 2.90×103± 0.43×103 and 5.25×103± 0.69×103 for examined frozen breast, thigh, nuggets and burger. 12 isolates of A. hydrophila were specific for 16S rRNA gene of which 9 isolates were positive for aerolysin (aerA) and 10 of isolates were positive for haemolysin (ahhl), with incidence of 75% and 83.3%, respectively. The results achieved in the current study showed contamination of chicken products by Aeromonas spp. So in the field of food microbiology it is necessary to give more consideration to Aeromonads because they have the ability of toxins production, survival under low temperatures and growing in a wide spectrum of environments. So, hygienic measures should be adopted to control microbial contamination.

DOI

10.21608/bvmj.2020.37742.1237

Keywords

Aeromonas spp, Virulence factors, frozen chicken meat products

Authors

First Name

Suzan

Last Name

Sheir

MiddleName

Hassan

Affiliation

Animal Health research institute

Email

alrehab2010exp@gmail.com

City

Menofia

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First Name

Hemmat

Last Name

Ibrahim

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Affiliation

Department of Food Hygiene, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Benha University. Animal Health

Email

drhemmat01@yaoo.com

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-

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First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Hassan

MiddleName

Ahmed

Affiliation

Food Hygiene Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Banha university

Email

mohamedhsn40@yahoo.com

City

Tanta

Orcid

-

First Name

Nahla

Last Name

Shawky

MiddleName

Ahmed

Affiliation

Animal Health research institute, Shebin El koom branch

Email

dr.nahlashawky@yahoo.com

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-

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Volume

39

Article Issue

1

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17601

Issue Date

2020-09-01

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2020-08-10

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2020-09-01

Page Start

47

Page End

51

Print ISSN

1110-6581

Online ISSN

2974-4806

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812

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Benha Veterinary Medical Journal

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Prevalence of Aeromonas spp and their virulence factors isolated from frozen chicken meat products

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22 Jan 2023