Safety assessment of commercial Enterococcus probiotics in Korea

Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 942-945

  Lee, Kieun ^a   Lee, Minyoung ^a   Lee, Yeonhee ^a  

^a Seoul Women University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; Enterococcus; Probiotic; Safety; Virulence factor

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CYTOLYSIN; CYTOLYSIN A; ERYTHROMYCIN; GELATINASE; GELATINASE E; LEVOFLOXACIN; NORFLOXACIN; PROBIOTIC AGENT; PROTEIN AGG; PROTEIN VANA; PROTEIN VANB; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DRUG SCREENING; ENTEROCOCCUS; FOOD MICROBIOTECHNOLOGY; FOOD SAFETY; KOREA; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; KOREA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PROBIOTICS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ENTEROCOCCUS;

EID: 50249108851     PISSN: 10177825     EISSN: 17388872     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute. 2006. Performance standards for antimicrobial susceptibility testing: M100-S15. 16th informational supplement. Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute, Wayne, PA.
2. Eaton, T. J. and M. J. Gasson. 2001. Molecular screening of Enterococcus virulence determinants and potential for genetic exchange between food and medical isolates. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 67: 1628-1635.
3. FAO and WHO. 2002. Joint FAO/WHO working group report on drafting guidelines for the evaluation of probiotics in food. Accessed at: ftp://ftp.fao.org/es/esn/food/wgreport2.pdf.
4. Franz, C. M., A. B. Muscholl-silberhorn, N. M. Yousif, M. Vancanneyt, J. Swings, and W. H. Holzapfel. 2001. Incidence of virulence factors and antibiotic resistance among Enterococci isolated from food. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 67: 4385-4389.
5. Galli, D., F. Lottspeich, and R. Wirth. 1990. Sequence analysis of Enterococcus faecalis aggregation substance encoded by the sex pheromone plasmid pAD1. Mol. Microbiol. 4: 895-904.
6. Gilmore, M. S., R A. Segarra, M. C. Booth, C. P. Bogie, L. R. Hall, and D. B. Clewell. 1994. Genetic structure of the Enterococcus faecalis plasmid pAD1-encoded cytolytic toxin system and its relationship to lantibiotic determinants. J Bacteriol. 176: 7335-7344.
7. Kim, T. W, J. Y Lee, S. H. Jung, Y.M. Kim, J. S. Jo, D. K. Chung, H. J. Lee, and H. Y. Kim. 2002. Identification and distribution of predominant lactic acid bacteria in kimchi, a Korean traditional fermented food. J. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 12: 635-642.
8. Mathur, S. and R. Singh. 2005. Antibiotic resistance in food lactic acid bacteria - A review. Int. J. Food Microbiol. 105: 281-295.
9. Miranda, A. G, K. V. Singh, and B. E. Murray. 1991. DNA fingerprinting of Enterococcus faecium by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis may be a useful epidemiologic tool. J. Clin. Microbiol. 29: 2752-2757.
10. Moon, G. S., C. H. Kang, Y. R. Pyun, and W. J. Kim. 2004. Isolation, identification, and characterization of bacteriocin-producing Enterococcus sp. from kimchi and its application to kimchi fermentation. J. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 14: 924-931.
11. Shankar, V., A. S. Baghdayan, M. M. Huycke, G. Lindahl, and M. S. Gillmore. 1999. Infection-derived Enterococcus faecalis strains are enriched in esp, a gene encoding a novel surface protein. Infect. Immun. 67: 193-200.
12. Shin, E., H. Hong, Y. Ike, K. Lee, Y. H. Park, D. T. Cho, and Y. Lee. 2006. VanB-vanA incongruent VRE isolated from animals and humans in 1999. J. Microbiol. 44: 453-456.
13. Singh, K. V., T. M. Coque, G. M. Weinstock, and B. E. Murray. 1998. In vivo testing of an Enterococcus faecalis efaA mutant and use of efaA homologs for species identification. FEMS Immunol. Med. Microbiol. 21: 323-331.
14. Su, Y. A., M. C. Sulavik, P. He, K. K. Makinen, P. L. Makinen, S. Fiedler, R. Wirth, and D. B. Clewell. 1991. Nucleotide sequence of the gelatinase gene (gelE) from Enterococcus faecalis subsp. liquefaciens. Infect. Immun. 59: 415-420.
15. Suzuki, M. T. and S. J. Giovannoni. 1996. Bias caused by template annealing in the amplification of mixtures of 16S rRNA genes by PCR. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 62: 625-630.