The Distribution of Staphylococcus aureus in a Poultry Processing Plant

Gibbs, Paul; Patterson, Jamila; Thompson, J. K.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2672.1978.tb00814.x

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“…Previous studies have demonstrated that poultry processing plants can provide an environment for the transmission of Staphylococcus aureus, which has been shown to be endemic in poultry processing equipment Gibbs et al 1978;Mead and Dodd 1990;Notermans et al 1982).…”

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Characterization of drug-resistantStaphylococcus aureusisolated from poultry processing plants in Western Australia

Bertolatti

O’Brien

Grubb

2003

International Journal of Environmental Health Research

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Poultry processing plants can provide a favourable environment for the survival and transmission of Staphylococcus aureus. It is known that infections due to antibiotic-resistant strains of S. aureus are an increasingly serious problem clinically and, since antibiotic exposure in food-animal species may lead to antibiotic-resistant bacteria, it is possible that processed poultry may constitute a reservoir for disseminating antibiotic-resistance into the community. The present study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of antimicrobial-resistant S. aureus in two poultry processing plants, and to characterize the isolates by antimicrobial susceptibility and chromosomal and plasmid DNA analysis. One hundred and twenty-six S. aureus were isolated from two poultry processing plants in Western Australia. All were sensitive to 14 of the 26 antimicrobials tested and all isolates were resistant to at least one antibiotic and one chemical marker, the prominent resistance combination being to penicillin and cadmium (89%). Forty-six (36.5%) of the isolates were resistant to six or more of the antimicrobial agents tested. Overall there were no consistent resistance patterns for the isolates and no consistent patterns were found between and within the two processing plants. There were 24 epidemiologically unrelated Sma1 contour-clamped homogeneous electric field (CHEF) groups and 17 different plasmid profiles detected among the isolates. All isolates were found to harbour from between one to seven plasmids. The majority of isolates carried at least one large plasmid (22-48 Kb), and one or more small plasmids (1-3 Kb). Some isolates with epidemiologically related CHEF patterns had similar plasmid profiles and resistance patterns.

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Characterization of drug-resistantStaphylococcus aureusisolated from poultry processing plants in Western Australia

Bertolatti

O’Brien

Grubb

2003

International Journal of Environmental Health Research

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“…novobiosepticus, and Staphylococcus intermedius. These bacteria are common on soil and human hands and could result from shipping and handling (Gibbs et al, 1978;Al-Wali et al, 1998;Bilska, 2000). None are generally recognized as foodborne pathogens.…”

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Interventions for control of Salmonella: Clearance of microbial growth from rubber picker fingers

Arnold

Yates

2009

Poultry Science

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A study was conducted to determine if a surface material with antimicrobial properties combined with an effective disinfectant could achieve total clearance of bacterial contamination. Before beginning the project, new rubber picker fingers collected from 3 processing facilities were tested for endogenous microflora. Five species of bacteria common to soil and human handling were present: Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, Bacillus cereus/thuringiensis, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Staphylococcus hominis ssp. novobiosepticus, and Staphylococcus intermedius. In separate experiments, new (unused) rubber picker fingers from 3 manufacturers were exposed to broiler carcass rinses, and the kinetics of bacterial attachment to finger material was determined. Turbidity of the bacterial suspensions at varying dilutions containing picker finger sections was compared hourly with controls to evaluate inhibition. New rubber finger material from the 3 manufacturers significantly inhibited bacterial growth (P < 0.05), without the aid of antibacterial additives. We improved an assay for screening disinfectants against growth of pathogens and determined the activity of 5 disinfectant compounds. Two of the compounds were most effective against Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella Enteritidis, and Escherichia coli, and one of the compounds was selected for further study with Salmonella Enteritidis. Scanning electron microscopy confirmed the levels of Salmonella Enteritidis before and after treatment. The most effective compound was nontoxic and completely cleared Salmonella Enteritidis contamination from the rubber picker finger surface.

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“…The object was to evaluate the ability of this phage set to type poultry strains of Staph. aureus on a wider scale and hence determine their interrelatedness in view of the previous finding (Gibbs et al, 1978c) that live poultry can carry two Staph. aureus biotypes (ecovars), distinguishable by both phage typing and cultural characteristics.…”

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The use of a new phage set for typing poultry strains ofstaphylococcus aureusobtained from seven countries

Thompson¹,

Patterson²,

Gibbs

1980

British Poultry Science

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1. Eighty per cent of poultry strains of Staphylococcus aureus tested from French, Belgian, English, West German, Japanese and Argentinian sources were typable using a set of typing phages isolated in this laboratory. Strains from Bulgaria, however, with few exceptions were not typable with this phage set. 2. Strains isolated from lesions generally resembled those from apparently healthy poultry. 3. The existence of two distinct Staph. aureus biotypes on poultry was confirmed by isolates from six of the countries; one of these biotypes closely resembled Staph. aureus variety gallinae as described by Witte et al. (1977).

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The Distribution of Staphylococcus aureus in a Poultry Processing Plant

Cited by 42 publications

References 14 publications

Characterization of drug-resistantStaphylococcus aureusisolated from poultry processing plants in Western Australia

Characterization of drug-resistantStaphylococcus aureusisolated from poultry processing plants in Western Australia

Interventions for control of Salmonella: Clearance of microbial growth from rubber picker fingers

The use of a new phage set for typing poultry strains ofstaphylococcus aureusobtained from seven countries

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