Clostridium perfringens in retail chicken.
Clostridium perfringens isolates were recovered by enrichment from retail grocery chicken samples (n = 88) in Ontario, Canada, with one sample per site. The gene associated with necrotic enteritis in chickens, netB, was found in 21% of the isolates. The tpeL gene was found in 2% and the cpb2 gene in 68% (95% "atypical" genes) of isolates. This study suggests that netB-positive C. perfringens can reach people through retail chicken.
Nowell
Victoria J
VJ
Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph, Gordon street, Guelph, ON N1G2W1, Canada. vnowell@uoguelph.ca
Poppe
Cornelis
C
Parreira
Valeria R
VR
Jiang
Yan-Fen
YF
Reid-Smith
Richard
R
Prescott
John F
JF
D000818:Animals; D001427:Bacterial Toxins / Q000235:genetics; D002645:Chickens / Q000382:microbiology*; D003015:Clostridium Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D003016:Clostridium perfringens / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004768:Enterotoxins / Q000235:genetics; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D062665:Epidemiological Monitoring; D005516:Food Microbiology; D008461:Meat Products / Q000382:microbiology*; D009864:Ontario / Q000453:epidemiology; D011201:Poultry Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*
D001427:Bacterial Toxins; D004768:Enterotoxins; C534774:NetB protein, Clostridium perfringens; C109896:cpb2 protein, Clostridium perfringens