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. 2023 Oct 17;11(10):2581. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms11102581

Table 1.

Antimicrobial resistance genes identified in different types of meat and meat products.

Type of Food Microbiota Antimicrobial Resistance Genes Reference
Raw poultry, pork and beef Enterococcus spp. Vancomycin: vanA, vanB and vanC1,2,3 [96]
Tetracycline: tetM, tetL
Erythromycin: ermA and ermB
Quinupristin-dalfopristin: vat[D] and vat[E]
Retail poultry meat Escherichia coli β-lactam: blaTEM, blaSHV, blaCMY-2 and blaCTX-M [86]
Sulphamethoxazole: sul2
Tetracycline: tetA and tetB
Chloramphenicol: cmlA
Aminoglycoside: aphA1 and aadA
Trimethoprim: dfrA1
Bull-cooked meat products Enterobacter spp.
Escherichia coli
Citrobacter spp.
Pseudomonas spp.
β-lactam: blaTEM-1 and blaCTX-M-14 [88]
Gentamicin: aac(3)-IIa
Streptomycin: strA and strB
Quinolone: qnrB and qnrS
Sulphamethoxazole: sul1, sul2 and sul3
Chloramphenicol: cat1 and cat3
Tetracycline: tetM. tetA and tetB
Animal-based products (ready-to-eat food) Staphylococcus saprophyticus
Staphylococcus sciuri
Staphylococcus xylosus.
Oxacillin: mecA [95]
β-lactam: blaZ
Tetracycline: tetK
Erythromycin: msrA, msrB, ermA
Gentamycin: aacA-aphD
Fusidic acid: fusD
Trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole: dfrG
Chicken meat Salmonella Albany
Salmonella Virchow
Salmonella Enteritidis
Salmonella Infantis
β-lactam: blaCTZ-M-15, blaCTX-M-79 and blaCMY-2 [93]
Tetracycline: tetA and tetB
Sulfonamide: sul1 and sul2
Chloramphenicol: catA1 and cmlA
Retail meat (pork, chicken and duck) Salmonella Enteritidis
Salmonella Typhimurium
Salmonella Typhi
Salmonella Goldcoast
Salmonella Ouakam
Salmonella Paratyphi
Tetracycline: tetA [94]
β-lactam: blaTEM
Aminoglycoside: aadA1 and aadA2
Sulfonamide: sul1 and sul2
Dry fermented Italian salami Enterococcus faecium UC7251 Ampicillin: pbp5-S1/R20 [97]
Gentamycin: aac(6′)-li
Kanamycin: aph(3′)-lll
Streptomycin: aad6 and aadE
Erythromycin: ermB, mrsC and sat4
Clindamycin: ermB, lnuB and lsaE
Tylosine: ermB
Tetracycline: tetL and tetM
Traditional pork dry sausages Salmonella Enteritidis
Salmonella Typhi
Salmonella Typhimurium
Quinolone: gyrA and parC [91]
Chloramphenicol: catA1
Trimethoprim: drfA
Tetracycline: tetA and tetB
Nitrofurantoin: nfsA and nfsB
Ampicillin: blaTEM
Chicken meat Escherichia coli isolate 1108 β-lactam: blaNDM-1, blaTEM-1, blaCTZX-M-64 and blaCMY-2 [92]
Bleomycin: bleMBL
Sulfonamide: sul1 and sul2
Tetracycline: tetA and tetR
Aminoglycosides: strA
Quinolone: oqxA and oqxB
Phenicol: floR
Streptomycin: aadA2
Trimethoprim: dfrA12
Retail meat (chicken and pork) Salmonella Kentucky
Salmonella Indiana
Salmonella Derby
Salmonella Typhimurium
Salmonella Litchfield
Salmonella Schwarzengrun
β-lactam: blaCTX-M-55, blaTEM-206, blaTEM-214, blaOXA-1, blaCTX-M-123, blaTEM-1, blaCTX-M-64 and blaCTX-M-15 [98]
Naturally fermented smoked pork Staphylococcus carnosus
Lactobacillus plantarum
Labctobacillus brevis
Lactobacillus sakei
Weissella confusa
Weissella cibaria
Tetracycline: tetO and tetM
Erythromycin: ereA
Chloramphenicol: catA
Streptomycin: strA and strB
[99]
Pork meat Aeromonas aquariorum
Aeromonas hydrophila
Aeromonas jandaei
Aeromonas veronii
Acinetobacter baumannii
Acinetobacter bereziniae
Acinetobacter johnsonii
Acinetobacter septicus
Acinetobacter ursingii
Citrobacter sp.
Citrobacter freundii
Citrobacter murliniae
Enterobacteriaceae
Enterobacter sp.
Enterobacter asburiae
Enterobacter cloacae
Enterobacter hormaechei
Enterobacter ludwigii
Escherichia coli
Klebsiella sp.
Klebsiella oxytoca
Klebsiella terrigena
Lactobacillus casei
Leclercia sp.
Lactococcus garvieae
Lactococcus lactis
Micrococcus caseolyticus
Myroides phaeus
Myroides marinus
Myroides odoratimimus
Oceanobacillus
Pantoea sp.
Pantoea dispersa
Pantoea agglomerans
Proteus penneri
Providencia alcalifaciens
Pseudomonas sp.
Raoultella sp.
Raoultella terrigena
Serratia sp.
Serratia marcescens
Sphingobacterium
Staphylococcus sp.
Staphylococcus sciuri
Staphylococcus epidermidis
Vibrio cincinnatiensis
Wautersiella falsenii genomovar 1
Kurthia sp.
Bacillus sp.
Morganella sp.
Micrococcus caseolyticus
Vagococcus sp.
Raoultella ornithinolytica
Comamonas sp.
Budvicia sp.
Aeromonas sp.
Klebsiella sp.
β-lactam: blaTEM, blaCTX-M, blaCMY-2
Tetracycline: tetA, tetC, tetE, tetK, tetL, tetM and tetS
Sulfonamide: sul1 and sul2
Aminoglycoside: aadA and aphA-1
Chloramphenicol: cmlA
Macrolide: ermB
Florfenicol: floR
[100,101,102]
Raw and cooked pork Citrobacter freundii
Serratia marcescens
Escherichia coli
β-lactams: blaTEM, blaCTX-M-1, blaSHV and blaCTX-M-9 [103]
Pork meat and pork meat preparations (cotechino, hamburger, sausages and Zuccotto of Bismantova) Salmonella Derby
Salmonella Typhimurium
Salmonella Bredeney
Salmonella London
Salmonella Anatum
Salmonella Agona
Salmonella Virchow
Salmonella Senftenberg
Salmonella Livingstone
Salmonella India
Salmonella Heidelberg
Salmonella Bovis-morbificans
Salmonella Coeln
Ampicillin: blaPSE-1
Gentamicin: ant (2″)-Ia
Sulfamethoxazole: sul1
Tetracycline: tetA, tetB, tetG and marRAB
[104]