Risk Factors for Campylobacteriosis: an Epidemiological Surveillance Study of Patients and Retail Poultry

Lindmark, Hans; Boqvist, Sofia; Ljungström, Marianne; Ågren, P.; Björkholm, Britta; Engstrand, Lars

doi:10.1128/jcm.00826-09

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“…Comparison of Campylobacter fla-SVR genotypes isolated from humans and poultry revealed few significant differences in the distribution of genotypes over these two hosts (Wassenaar et al 2009). Lindmark et al (2009) detected a significant correlation between the presence of a particular C. jejuni subtype in patients and the consumption of fresh poultry meat during the same period and within the same geographical area. Together, all these observations indicate that certain C. jejuni strains circulate between poultry and humans, highlighting poultry as an important source for transmitting this pathogen to humans.…”

Section: Contribution Of the Chicken Reservoir To Campylobacteriosis mentioning

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Poultry as a Host for the Zoonotic PathogenCampylobacter jejuni

Hermans

Pasmans²,

Messens³

et al. 2012

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Campylobacteriosis is the most reported foodborne gastroenteritic disease and poses a serious health burden in industrialized countries. Disease in humans is mainly caused by the zoonotic pathogen Campylobacter jejuni. Due to its wide-spread occurrence in the environment, the epidemiology of Campylobacter remains poorly understood. It is generally accepted, however, that chickens are a natural host for Campylobacter jejuni, and for Campylobacter spp. in general, and that colonized broiler chicks are the primary vector for transmitting this pathogen to humans. Several potential sources and vectors for transmitting C. jejuni to broiler flocks have been identified. Initially, one or a few broilers can become colonized at an age of > 2 weeks until the end of rearing, after which the infection will rapidly spread throughout the entire flock. Such a flock is generally colonized until slaughter and infected birds carry a very high C. jejuni load in their gastrointestinal tract, especially the ceca. This eventually results in contaminated carcasses during processing, which can transmit this pathogen to humans. Recent genetic typing studies showed that chicken isolates can frequently be linked to human clinical cases of Campylobacter enteritis. However, despite the increasing evidence that the chicken reservoir is the number one risk factor for disease in humans, no effective strategy exists to reduce Campylobachter prevalence in poultry flocks, which can in part be explained by the incomplete understanding of the epidemiology of C. jejuni in broiler flocks. As a result, the number of human campylobacteriosis cases associated with the chicken vector remains strikingly high.

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Section: Contribution Of the Chicken Reservoir To Campylobacteriosis mentioning

confidence: 83%

Poultry as a Host for the Zoonotic PathogenCampylobacter jejuni

Hermans

Pasmans²,

Messens³

et al. 2012

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

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“…In Finland, two SmaI PFGE subtypes persisted in two of the three cattle herds throughout a year (Hakkinen & Ha¨nninen, 2009) and persistent PFGE subtypes of C. jejuni also has been described in patients (Nakari et al, 2011). In Japan, indistinguishable SmaI subtypes were found in human isolates over a 12-year period (Yabe et al, 2010), and five of the six predominant SmaI/KpnI combination PFGE subtypes in Sweden in 2000 were still predominant in 2003 (Lindmark et al, 2009).…”

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Campylobacter jejuniisolated from human cases in Chile showed indistinguishable pulsed field gel electrophoresis profiles with strains isolated from poultry and bovine sources

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García²,

Foerster³

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“…Raw or undercooked poultry has long been recognized as a major source of infection, but other sources, such as beef, pork, lamb, milk, water, and seafood, also have been associated with Campylobacter infections (8,14,16,18). Although Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli cause indistinguishable diarrheal illness, C. jejuni accounts for more than 90% of human campylobacteriosis cases in the United States (8).…”

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Antimicrobial Resistance of Campylobacter Isolates from Retail Meat in the United States between 2002 and 2007

Zhao

Young

Tong

et al. 2010

Appl Environ Microbiol

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The emergence of antimicrobial resistance in Campylobacter spp. has been a growing public health concern globally. The objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence, antimicrobial susceptibility, and genetic relatedness of Campylobacter spp. recovered by the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) retail meat program. Retail meat samples (n ‫؍‬ 24,566) from 10 U.S. states collected between 2002 and 2007, consisting of 6,138 chicken breast, 6,109 ground turkey, 6,171 ground beef, and 6,148 pork chop samples, were analyzed. A total of 2,258 Campylobacter jejuni, 925 Campylobacter coli, and 7 Campylobacter lari isolates were identified. Chicken breast samples showed the highest contamination rate (49.9%), followed by ground turkey (1.6%), whereas both pork chops and ground beef had <0.5% contamination. The most common resistance was to doxycycline/tetracycline (46.6%), followed by nalidixic acid (18.5%), ciprofloxacin (17.4%), azithromycin and erythromycin (2.8%), telithromycin (2.4%), clindamycin (2.2%), and gentamicin (<0.1%). In a subset of isolates tested, no resistance to meropenem and florfenicol was seen. C. coli isolates showed higher resistance rates to antimicrobials, with the exception of doxycycline/tetracycline, than those seen for C. jejuni. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) fingerprinting resulted in 1,226 PFGE profiles among the 2,318 isolates, with many clones being widely dispersed throughout the 6-year sampling period.

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Risk Factors for Campylobacteriosis: an Epidemiological Surveillance Study of Patients and Retail Poultry

Cited by 28 publications

References 29 publications

Poultry as a Host for the Zoonotic PathogenCampylobacter jejuni

Poultry as a Host for the Zoonotic PathogenCampylobacter jejuni

Campylobacter jejuniisolated from human cases in Chile showed indistinguishable pulsed field gel electrophoresis profiles with strains isolated from poultry and bovine sources

Antimicrobial Resistance of Campylobacter Isolates from Retail Meat in the United States between 2002 and 2007

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