Professional paper
Salmonella Infantis in chicken meat on the Croatian market
Brigita Hengl
orcid.org/0000-0001-8082-2087
; Hrvatska agencija za hranu, Osijek, I. Gundulića 36b
Mr. sc. Jasenka Petrić, dipl.ing.preh.teh
orcid.org/0000-0002-0139-780X
; Hrvatska agencija za hranu, Osijek, I. Gundulića 36b
Andrea Gross – Bošković preh. teh. i bioteh.
; Hrvatska agencija za hranu, Osijek, I. Gundulića 36b
Ana Marija Crnić, dipl.ing.preh.teh.
Kristina Vuljanić, dipl.ing.preh.teh.
Ružica Vazdar, dipl.ing.preh.teh.
Abstract
Salmonella Infantis are pathogenic bacteria whose prevalence in primary production of poultry meat and human isolates from several European countries is on the rise. According to the report of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) published in 2014, a higher incidence of these bacte¬ria was also observed in Central and Eastern European EU Member States (Romania, Italy, Slovenia, Austria). S. Infantis was the fourth most common serovar of Salmonella in humans. The most common serovar in broiler flocks was isolated in the EU. The prevalence of S. Infanits in flocks of chickens was on the rise since 2011. However, the data on its prevalence in chicken meat on the Croatian market is not available. This paper looks at the incidence of S. Infantis in samples of fresh and frozen chicken meat collected on the Croatian market during 2015. The sampling was performed within the framework of Ministry of Health sanitary inspection monitoring, and collected samples were analysed in due county public health institutes. From the total of 474 chicken meat sam¬ples included in monitoring, 51 samples were culture positive for Salmonella spp, while S. Infantis represented the most frequently isolated serovar (88.2 %).
Keywords
Salmonella Infantis; chicken meat; prevalence
Hrčak ID:
164952
URI
Publication date:
31.8.2016.
spanish italian german croatian
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