Microbiological assessment of freshly-shot wild boars meat in Lazio Region, Viterbo territory: a preliminary study


Submitted: 13 May 2013
Accepted: 25 September 2013
Published: 4 March 2014
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  • Eda Maria Flores Rodas Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana, Roma, Italy.
  • Tatiana Bogdanova Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana, Roma, Italy.
  • Teresa Bossù Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana, Roma, Italy.
  • Sabrina Pecchi Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana, Roma, Italy.
  • Francesco Tomassetti Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana, Roma, Italy.
  • Paola De Santis Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana, Roma, Italy.
  • Rita Tolli Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana, Roma, Italy.
  • Roberto Condoleo Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana, Roma, Italy.
  • Sara Greco Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana, Roma, Italy.
  • Alberto Brozzi Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana, Roma, Italy.
  • Stefano Bilei Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana, Roma, Italy.
  • Giuseppe Micarelli Azienda Sanitaria Locale 9 - Sezione di Viterbo, Italy.
  • Enrica Martini Azienda Sanitaria Locale 9 - Sezione di Viterbo, Italy.
  • Massimo Palazzetti Azienda Sanitaria Locale 9 - Sezione di Viterbo, Italy.
During the wild boars hunting season (2012-2013), 6508 adults were shot in Lazio Region, Viterbo territory. Out of the 6508, 393 subjects were sampled to be tested for the detection of Salmonella spp., Yersinia enterocolitica, E. coli VTEC and Trichinella spp. For this purpose, diaphragm and skeletal muscles samples were collected after the shooting, and tested at the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale Lazio and Toscana laboratories, Rome, Italy. Samples were tested respectively by polymerase chain reaction, enzyme linked immunofluorescent assay, microbiological and parasitological assays. The positivity percentages are 3.6% for Salmonella spp., 14.8% (out of 230 samples tested) for Yersinia enterocolitica, 4.6% for E.coli VTEC (vtx 1 and 2 genes). Each positive sample for vtx 1 and 2 was tested to isolate Verotoxigenic E.coli strains; none of them was positive for the same virulence genes. All diaphragm samples were negative to the trichinoscopic test. Every bacterial strain was identified serologically by seroagglutination test.

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Flores Rodas EM, Bogdanova T, Bossù T, Pecchi S, Tomassetti F, De Santis P, Tolli R, Condoleo R, Greco S, Brozzi A, Bilei S, Micarelli G, Martini E, Palazzetti M. Microbiological assessment of freshly-shot wild boars meat in Lazio Region, Viterbo territory: a preliminary study. Ital J Food Safety [Internet]. 2014 Mar. 4 [cited 2024 Mar. 28];3(1). Available from: https://www.pagepressjournals.org/ijfs/article/view/ijfs.2014.1711

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