COMPARISON BETWEEN TETRACYCLINE RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCI ISOLATED FROM SHEEP AND TYPICAL CHEESE IN THE GEOGRAPHICAL AREA OF “PARCO NAZIONALE DEI MONTI SIBILLINI”


Submitted: 3 January 2013
Accepted: 3 January 2013
Published: 2 August 2012
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  • V. Cambiotti Master in Sanità Pubblica Veterinaria e Igiene degli Alimenti, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy.
  • D. Garofalo Master in Sanità Pubblica Veterinaria e Igiene degli Alimenti, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy.
  • B.T. Cenci Goga Master in Sanità Pubblica Veterinaria e Igiene degli Alimenti, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy.
Enterococci were isolated from sheep faeces and cheese taken in the «Parco nazionale dei monti Sibillini»; then they were submitted to the antibiotic susceptibility test and to the PCR reaction to amplify tet M and tet O genes. The analysis showed that 23,64% of Enterococci from sheep and 30,77% from cheese were resistant to tetracycline; 14 strains from sheep and 5 from cheese contained tet M and tet O genes as genetic determinants of resistance. These results allow to say that resistant bacteria and genes have the possibility to be transferred from animals to derived food; therefore reducing antibiotic use in farm animals could affect the amount of resistant microorganisms that can reach human beings using this way of diffusion.

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Cambiotti V, Garofalo D, Cenci Goga B. COMPARISON BETWEEN TETRACYCLINE RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCI ISOLATED FROM SHEEP AND TYPICAL CHEESE IN THE GEOGRAPHICAL AREA OF “PARCO NAZIONALE DEI MONTI SIBILLINI”. Ital J Food Safety [Internet]. 2012 Aug. 2 [cited 2024 Mar. 29];1(4):43-5. Available from: https://www.pagepressjournals.org/ijfs/article/view/ijfs.2012.4.43

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