英文摘要 |
Two hundred and sixty raw and cooked samples of retail pork and porcine tongue were collected from local markets and supermarkets in Taiwan during August 1990 to June 1991. Yersinia enterocolitica strains were identified by a VITEK automicrobic system and API 20E kits after enrichment and selective plating procedures. It was isolated from 14.9% of the pork samples and from 13.4% of the porcine tongue samples with an overall rate of 14.2%. In addition, 15.3% of raw samples and 10.9% of cooked samples were contaminated with Y. enlerocolitica. The strains isolated from 16 of these 37 positive samples were of typical serotypes, and the 0:5 serotype strains were most frequently isolated. The serotypable Y. enterocolitica strains all possessed lipase, and most of strains exhibited autoagglutination when grown at 37℃ in tissue culture medium. Among 16 serotypable strains, thirteen strains were classified as Nilehn's biotype 1, one biotype 4, and the other two did not belong to any of Nilehn's biotype. All of these serotypable strains were resistant to sulfadizine. Nine were resistant to ampicillin, and one was resistant to tetracycline. All serotypable strains were susceptible to aztreonam, ceftazidime, chloramphenicol, colistin, cefoxitin, carbenicillin, imipenem, kanamycin, streptomycin, gentamycin, tobramycin, and ticarcillin. Twelve of these sixteen serotypable strains carried plasmids. |