DETECTION OF Helicobacter pylori IN GASTRIC MUCOSA OF SHEEP: PRELIMINARY RESULTS


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Published: 21 March 2009
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  • N.C. Quaglia Ispezione degli Alimenti di Origine Animale, Dipartimento Sanità e Benessere Animale, Facoltà di Medicina Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di Bari, .
  • A. Dambrosio Ispezione degli Alimenti di Origine Animale, Dipartimento Sanità e Benessere Animale, Facoltà di Medicina Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di Bari, .
  • G. Normanno Ispezione degli Alimenti di Origine Animale, Dipartimento Sanità e Benessere Animale, Facoltà di Medicina Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di Bari, .
  • F. Alberti Ispezione degli Alimenti di Origine Animale, Dipartimento Sanità e Benessere Animale, Facoltà di Medicina Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di Bari, .
  • A. Rella AUSL BA/3, Via S. D’Acquisto, 70020, Toritto (Bari) Italia, .
  • C. Tamborrino Ispezione degli Alimenti di Origine Animale, Dipartimento Sanità e Benessere Animale, Facoltà di Medicina Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di Bari, .
  • G.V. Celano Ispezione degli Alimenti di Origine Animale, Dipartimento Sanità e Benessere Animale, Facoltà di Medicina Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di Bari, .
Helicobacter pylori is an organism widespread in humans and sometimes responsible for serious illnesses. It has been hypothesized the existence of animal reservoirs, and that the infection route by H. pylori involves multiple pathways including food-borne transmission as the microorganism has been detected from sheep, goat and cow milk. This work reports the preliminary results of a survey conducted in order to investigate the presence of H. pylori in gastric mucosa of sheep slaughtered in Apulia region (Italy) employing a Nested Polymerase Chain Reaction (Nested-PCR) assay for the detection of the phosphoglucosamine mutase gene (glmM), as screening method followed by conventional bacteriological isolation. Out of the 50 gastric mucosa samples examined, 3 (6%) resulted positive for the presence of glmMgene, but at this time no strains were isolated. The results deserve further investigations to asses the role of ruminants as possible reservoirs of H. pylori.

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Quaglia N, Dambrosio A, Normanno G, Alberti F, Rella A, Tamborrino C, Celano G. DETECTION OF Helicobacter pylori IN GASTRIC MUCOSA OF SHEEP: PRELIMINARY RESULTS. Ital J Food Safety [Internet]. 2009 Mar. 21 [cited 2024 Mar. 28];1(3):45-8. Available from: https://www.pagepressjournals.org/ijfs/article/view/ijfs.2008.3.45

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