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TWENTY YEARS OF LISTERIA IN BRAZIL: OCCURRENCE OF LISTERIA SPECIES AND LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES SEROVARS IN FOOD SAMPLES IN BRAZIL BETWEEN 1990 AND 2012
10.1155/2015/540204
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Pavilhão Rocha Lima. Laboratório de Zoonoses Bacterianas. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Faculdade de Medicina. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Doenças Infecciosas e Parasitárias. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Pavilhão Rocha Lima. Laboratório de Zoonoses Bacterianas. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Pavilhão Rocha Lima. Laboratório de Zoonoses Bacterianas. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Pavilhão Rocha Lima. Laboratório de Zoonoses Bacterianas. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Pavilhão Rocha Lima. Laboratório de Zoonoses Bacterianas. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Pavilhão Rocha Lima. Laboratório de Zoonoses Bacterianas. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Faculdade de Medicina. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Doenças Infecciosas e Parasitárias. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Pavilhão Rocha Lima. Laboratório de Zoonoses Bacterianas. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Pavilhão Rocha Lima. Laboratório de Zoonoses Bacterianas. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Pavilhão Rocha Lima. Laboratório de Zoonoses Bacterianas. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Pavilhão Rocha Lima. Laboratório de Zoonoses Bacterianas. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Pavilhão Rocha Lima. Laboratório de Zoonoses Bacterianas. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Abstract
Listeria spp. isolated from different food products and collected from 12 Brazilian states were sent to the Laboratory of Bacterial Zoonoses (Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Brazil) for identification. The aims of this study were to characterize these isolates, from 1990 to 2012, by using biochemical, morphological, and serotyping tests, and to analyze the distribution of L. monocytogenes serotypes on different food products and geographical locations. Serotyping was performed using polyclonal somatic and flagellar antisera. Of 5953 isolates, 5770 were identified as Listeria spp., from which 3429 (59.4%) were L. innocua, 2248 (38.9%) were L. monocytogenes, and 93 (1.6%) were other Listeria spp. L. innocua was predominantly isolated from 1990 to 2000, while L. monocytogenes was from 2001 to 2012. Regarding the serotype distribution in the foods, serotypes 1/2a and 4b were most common in processed meat and ready-to-eat products, respectively; serotypes 1/2a, 1/2b, and 4b were the most common in nonprocessed meat. The results above confirm the presence of the main serotypes of L. monocytogenes in different parts of the food chain from three regions of the country and emphasize the importance of improving the control measures, as tolerance zero policy and microbiological surveillance in Brazil.
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VALLIM, Deyse Christina; et al. Twenty Years of Listeria in Brazil: Occurrence of Listeria Species and Listeria monocytogenes Serovars in Food Samples in Brazil between 1990 and 2012. BioMed Research International, v.2015, Article ID 540204, 8p, 2015.ISSN
2314-613310.1155/2015/540204
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