Cronobacter Support
06-03-2009, 05:26 PM
1st International Conference on Cronobacter Poster Abstract 57
Detection of Cronobacter spp. with different standard methods
Cronobacter (C.) spp. is an important opportunistic pathogen which has been isolated from a variety of foods and is thought to be common in the environment. Occasionally found as contaminant of powdered infant formula (PIF), this organism is associated in neonatal and infant cases of meningitis, septicemia and necrotizing enterocolitis. This has brought the organism into the focus of food microbiology over the recent years and a number of standard methods based on chromogenic agars and molecular biological methods have been developed. The topic of the current investigations was to compare the different approaches in terms of sensitivity and specificity. This has been done especially against the background of the species Enterobacter sakazakii recently being renamed to Cronobacter spp. and showing a broader diversity now. We have included several Cronobacter species in the study to investigate differences in the detection ability of standard methods.
Sha Zhu, Miryam Fischer-Reinhard and Matthias Fischer
Central Laboratories Friedrichsdorf, Bahnstrasse 14-30, Friedrichsdorf, D-61381, Germany.
Detection of Cronobacter spp. with different standard methods
Cronobacter (C.) spp. is an important opportunistic pathogen which has been isolated from a variety of foods and is thought to be common in the environment. Occasionally found as contaminant of powdered infant formula (PIF), this organism is associated in neonatal and infant cases of meningitis, septicemia and necrotizing enterocolitis. This has brought the organism into the focus of food microbiology over the recent years and a number of standard methods based on chromogenic agars and molecular biological methods have been developed. The topic of the current investigations was to compare the different approaches in terms of sensitivity and specificity. This has been done especially against the background of the species Enterobacter sakazakii recently being renamed to Cronobacter spp. and showing a broader diversity now. We have included several Cronobacter species in the study to investigate differences in the detection ability of standard methods.
Sha Zhu, Miryam Fischer-Reinhard and Matthias Fischer
Central Laboratories Friedrichsdorf, Bahnstrasse 14-30, Friedrichsdorf, D-61381, Germany.