title: Detection of Escherichia albertii from chicken meat and giblets.
abstract: Escherichia albertii occasionally causes food-borne outbreaks of gastroenteritis in humans; however, little is known about the vehicle of transmission. To screen retail chicken products for the presence of E. albertii, 104 retail chicken products were investigated. Portions of enrichment cultures that were PCR-positive for E. albertii (n=3) were sub-cultured on agar medium. Only 2 strains obtained from 2 chicken giblet samples were identified as E. albertii by multi locus sequence typing. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing showed that 1 strain was resistant to streptomycin and sulfisoxazole. Both strains harbored the virulence genes cdt and eae. This study is the first description of E. albertii isolation from retail food, suggesting that chicken products are a potential vehicle of E. albertii transmission.
authors.affiliation: Fukuoka Institute of Health and Environmental Sciences, 39 Mukaizano, Dazaifu, Fukuoka 818-0135, Japan.
authors.forename: Eriko
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Maeda
authors.forename: Koichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Murakami
authors.forename: Nobuyuki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sera
authors.forename: Kenitiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: Shuji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fujimoto
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D002645:Chickens / Q000382:microbiology; D004925:Escherichia / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D008460:Meat / Q000382:microbiology*; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D058885:Multilocus Sequence Typing; D010802:Phylogeny
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents