Diversity of Listeria Ribotypes Recovered from Dairy Cattle, Silage, and Dairy Processing Environments
- 1 July 1997
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Food Protection
- Vol. 60 (7) , 811-816
- https://doi.org/10.4315/0362-028x-60.7.811
Abstract
Listeria strains isolated over the past 10 years from farms and dairy processing environments were subjected to strain-specific ribotyping using the automated Riboprinter microbial characterization system, alpha version (E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc.). A total of 388 Listeria isolates from 20 different dairy processing facilities were examined along with 44 silage, 14 raw milk bulk tank, and 29 dairy cattle (26 udder quarter milk, 1 brain, 1 liver, and 1 aborted fetus) isolates. These 475 isolates included 93 L. monocytogenes, 362 L. innocua, 11 L. welshimeri, 6 L. seeligeri, 2 L. grayi, and 1 L. ivanovii strains. Thirty-seven different Listeria ribotypes (RTs) comprising 16 L. monocytogenes (including five known clinical RTs responsible for foodborne listeriosis), 12 L. innocua, 5 L. welshimeri, 2 L. seeligeri, 1 L. ivanovii, and 1 L. grayi were identified. Greatest diversity was seen among isolates from dairy processing facilities with 14 of 16 (87.5%) of the L. monocytogenes RTs (including five ...Keywords
This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: