Prevalence of Campylobacter spp. in retailed ready-to-eat sushi

International Food Research Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 331-336

  Tan, Y F ^a   Haresh, K K ^a   Chai, L C ^b   Ghazali, F M ^b   Son, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Campylobacter; polymerase chain reaction; supermarket; sushi

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI;

EID: 59349105362     PISSN: 19854668     EISSN: 22317546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Adesiyun, A.A. 1993. Prevalence of Listeria spp., Campylobacter spp., Salmonella spp., Yersinia spp., and toxigenic Escherichia coli meat and seafoods in Trinidad. Food Microbiology, 10 (5): 395-403.
2. Altekruse, S.F., Stern, N.J. and Swerdlow, D.L. 1999. Campylobacter jejuni - An Emerging Foodborne Pathogen. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 5(1): 28-35.
3. Chai, L.C., Robin, T., Ragavan, U.M., Gunsalam, J.W., Bakar, F.A., Ghazali, F.M., and Kumar, M.P. and Radu, S. 2007. Thermophilic Campylobacter spp. in salad vegetables in Malaysia. International Journal of Food Microbiology, 117: 106-111.
4. Jain, D., Sinha, S., Prasad, K.N. and Pandey, C.M. 2005. Campylobacter species and drug resistance in North Indian rural community. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 99: 207-214.
5. Lake, R., Hu, A., Cressey, P. and Nortje, G. 2003. Risk Profile: Campylobacter jejuni/ coli in poultry (whole and pieces). Institute of Environmental Science and Research Limited Christchurch Science Centre, pp11-47
6. Linton, D., Owen, R.J. and Stanley, J. 1996. Rapid identification by PCR of the genus Campylobacter and of live species enteropathogenic for man and animals. Research in Microbiology, 147: 707-718.
7. Luber, P., Brynestad, S., Topsch, D., Scherer, K. and Bartelt, E. 2006. Quantification of Campylobacter species cross-contamination during handling of contaminated fresh chicken parts in kitchens. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 72 (1): 66-70.
8. Nayak, R., Stewart, T.M. and Nawaz, M.S. 2005. PCR identification of Campylobacter coli and Campylobacter jejuni by partial sequencing of virulence genes. Molecular and Cellular Probes, 19: 187-193.
9. Nierop, W.V., Duse, A.G., Marais, E., Thothobolo, N., Kassel, M., Aithma, N., Stewart, R., Potgieter, A., Fernandes, B., Galpin, J.S. and Bloomfield, S.F. 2005 Contamination of chicken carcasses in Gauteng, South Africa, by Salmonella, Listeria monocytogenes and Campylobacter. International Journal of Food Microbiology, 99: 1-6.
10. Saleha, A.A. 2002. Isolation and characterization of Campylobacter jejuni from broiler chickens in Malaysia. International Journal of Poultry Science, 1(4): 94-97.
11. Schrotz-King, P., Prokhorova, T.A., Nielsen, P.N., Crawford, J.S. and Morsczeck, C. 2007. Campylobacter jejuni proteomics for new travellers' diarrhea vaccines. Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 5(2): 106-109.
12. Skanseng, B., Kaldhusdal, M. and Rudi, K. 2006. Comparison of chicken gut colonisation by the pathogens Campylobacter jejuni and Clostridium perfringens by real-time quantitative PCR. Molecular and Cellular Probes, 20: 269-279.
13. Snelling, W.J., Matsuda, M., Moore, J.E. and Dooley, J.S.G. 2005. Under the microscope-Campylobacter jejuni. Applied Microbiology, 41: 297-302.
14. Tam, C.C., O'Brien, S.J., Adak, G.K., Meakins, S.M. and Frost, J.A. 2003. Campylobacter coli-an important foodborne pathogen. Journal of Infection, 47: 28-32.
15. Whyte, P., McGill, K., Cowley, D., Madden, R.H., Moran, L., Scates, P., Carroll, C., O'Leary, A., Fanning, S., Collins, J.D., MaNamara, E., Moore, J.E. and Cormican, M. 2004. Occurrence of Campylobacter in retail foods in Ireland. International Journal of Food Microbiology, 95: 111 - 118.
16. Zorman, T., Heyndrickx, M. Uzunovi-Kamberovi, S. and Smole, M.S. 2006. Genotyping olobacter coli and C. jejuni from retail chicken meat and humans with campylobacteriosis in Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. International Journal of Food Microbiology, 110(1): 24-33.