Characterization of Bacillus cereus isolates from local dairy farms in China

Bacillus cereus is an important opportunistic foodborne pathogen. In the present work, a total of 306 milk and environmental samples were collected from 10 local dairy farms in Beijing, China. Of the 92 B. cereus-like isolates, 88 and 4 belonged to B. cereus and B. thuringiensis, respectively. The p...

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Veröffentlicht in:FEMS microbiology letters 2016-06, Vol.363 (12), p.fnw096
Hauptverfasser: Cui, Yifang, Liu, Xiaoye, Dietrich, Richard, Märtlbauer, Erwin, Cao, Jie, Ding, Shuangyang, Zhu, Kui
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Zusammenfassung:Bacillus cereus is an important opportunistic foodborne pathogen. In the present work, a total of 306 milk and environmental samples were collected from 10 local dairy farms in Beijing, China. Of the 92 B. cereus-like isolates, 88 and 4 belonged to B. cereus and B. thuringiensis, respectively. The prevalence of B. cereus isolates in bedding, feces, feed, liquid manure and raw milk was 93.3%, 78.9%, 41.2%, 100.0% and 9.8%, respectively. Three main toxin genes nhe, hbl and ces were detected with rates of 100.0%, 78.3% and 1.1%, but no strain harbored cytK1. The production of Nhe, Hbl and cereulide could be confirmed by specific monoclonal antibodies-based enzyme immunoassays in 94.6%, 70.7% and 1.1% of all isolates, respectively. Cytotoxicity tests were used to further corroborate the results of genetic and protein-based assays; 91.3% of the isolates showed cytotoxicity to Vero cells. All isolates were tested for antimicrobial resistance against 17 antibiotics. All isolates were resistant to lincomycin, retapamulin, tiamulin and valnemulin, while two strains were susceptible to ampicillin and ceftiofur. A total of 16 isolated strains were resistant to tetracycline. Since spores of B. cereus are not inactivated during manufacturing of most milk products, contamination of milk with B. cereus on the farm level may represent a potential hazard, particularly with respect to emetic toxin-producing strains. In this study, the authors isolated Bacillus cereus-like strains from milk and environmental samples, evaluated the isolates' toxins by PCR, immunoassay and cytotoxicity testes and detected antimicrobial susceptibilities of the isolates.
ISSN:1574-6968
0378-1097
1574-6968
DOI:10.1093/femsle/fnw096