Occurrence of enterobacteriaceae in fresh camel meat with special reference to salmonellae

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Food Hygiene Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Benha University, Egypt.

2 Animal Health Research Institute-Shibin El Koom branch.

3 Veterinary Medicine Directorate –El Menofia

Abstract

Eighty random samples of freshly slaughtered camel meat were collected from 4 different abattoirs namely (A) El-shohdaa, (B) El-Bagour, (C) Menouf and (D) Sadat (20 of each) located in Menofia governorate. and subjected to bacteriological examination .The obtained results declared that the mean  Enterobacteriaceae counts in examined meat camel samples were recorded descendingly in different abattoirs as in  B (9.77 × 107 3.44× 107 )then in D ( 7.86 × 107 4.91 × 10)  then in A (7.50 × 107 4.08 × 10) then in C (1.40 × 107 6.54 × 107   ). Incidence and serotyping of E.coli isolated from the examined samples of camel meat from the different abattoirs were (O19:H21, O44:H18 ,O86, O111:H4,O114:H4,O124,O127:H6,O121:H7,O171:H2) with ratio (5 ,0 ,5 ,0 ,5 ,5 , 0 , 0, 0, 0) , (10 , 0, 0, 5 ,0 ,5 ,5 ,5 ,0) , ( 5 ,10 ,0 ,0 ,5 ,5 ,0 ,0 ,0) and (5, 10, 0 ,0 ,5 ,5 ,0 ,0 ,0) in A , B, C and D  abattoirs, respectively . Salmonellae isolated from the examined samples of camel meat from the different abattoirs were S.Enteritidis, Typhimurium,  Virchow, Heidberg ,Kentucky and Infantis with ratio (5% ,10% ,0% .0%,5% ,5% ),(5% ,5% ,0% ,0% ,0% ,0%),(10% ,10% ,5% ,5% ,5% ,0%) and (5%,5%,0%,0%,5%,5%) in A , B,C  and D abattoirs , respectively.

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