Isolation and phylogenetic analysis of arcobacter spp. in ground chicken meat and environmental water in Japan and Thailand.
Prevalence of Arcobacter spp. in chicken meat samples and environmental water samples in Japan and Thailand was investigated. Arcobacter was isolated from 48% of chicken meat samples (20/41) and 23% of river water samples (4/17) from Japan, and 100% of chicken meat samples (10/10) and 100% of canal water samples (7/7) from Thailand. A. butzleri was among the species isolated from all positive samples. About 10% genetic diversity was seen in the rpoB-rpoC in Arcobacters, and phylogenetic trees were divided into two clusters. In both countries, the results suggested that chicken and environmental water were highly contaminated with a genetically diverse population of Arcobacter.
Morita
Yukio
Y
Gunma Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Sciences, Maebashi, Gunma 371-0052, Japan. morita-yu@pref.gunma.jp
Maruyama
Soichi
S
Kabeya
Hidenori
H
Boonmar
Sumalee
S
Nimsuphan
Burin
B
Nagai
Akira
A
Kozawa
Kunihisa
K
Nakajima
Takashi
T
Mikami
Takeshi
T
Kimura
Hirokazu
H
D000818:Animals; D020640:Arcobacter / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D002645:Chickens / Q000382:microbiology; D012321:DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases / Q000235:genetics; D005618:Fresh Water / Q000382:microbiology*; D014644:Genetic Variation; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008461:Meat Products / Q000382:microbiology*; D010802:Phylogeny; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D013785:Thailand
C108570:beta' subunit of RNA polymerase; D012321:DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases; C105078:RNA polymerase beta subunit