Incidence of Stenotrophomonas Species in Milk and Some Dairy Products in Beni-Suef Province, Egypt | ||
Journal of Veterinary Medical Research | ||
Article 2, Volume 28, Issue 2, December 2021, Pages 52-61 PDF (1.32 M) | ||
Document Type: Original Article | ||
DOI: 10.21608/jvmr.2021.104022.1044 | ||
Authors | ||
Gamal Hassan1; Heba Salem* 2; Mohamed Zeinhom1 | ||
1Food Hygiene Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef 62511, Egypt | ||
2Veterinarian at Police Clubs and Hotels, Ministry of Intern, Beni-Suef, Egypt. | ||
Abstract | ||
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is an emerging worldwide, multi-drug resistant, opportunistic respiratory tract pathogen causing severe economic losses in milk production as well as deterioration of dairy products. So we collected a total of 210 samples of farms milk, dairy shops milk, Damietta cheese, ice cream, yoghurt, cooking butter and cream and found that the highest incidence was in ice cream (80%) followed by ice cream (66.67%), while the lowest incidence was in Damietta cheese (3.33%). S. maltophilia was inoculated in milk and found that the pathogen can survive for 30, 30, 28, 30, and 8 days in the inoculated ice cream, butter 0% salt, butter 3% salt, cheese 0% salt, cheese 6% salt respectively, and measure count, pH, salt for 30 days. | ||
Keywords | ||
Stenotrophomonas; Incidence; inoculation | ||
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