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.
Gunma Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Sciences, Maebashi, Gunma 371-0052, Japan. morita-yu@pref.gunma.jp
Yukio
Y
Morita
Soichi
S
Maruyama
Hidenori
H
Kabeya
Sumalee
S
Boonmar
Burin
B
Nimsuphan
Akira
A
Nagai
Kunihisa
K
Kozawa
Takashi
T
Nakajima
Takeshi
T
Mikami
Hirokazu
H
Kimura
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