Table 1.
Isolates from beef abattoirs and their environmentsb
| Species | Microorganism | No. of isolates from source |
Total no. of isolates | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S | T | L | BA | HP | ET | F | H | HV | C | BH | P | |||
| 1 | C. gasigenes | 5 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 72 | 208 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 315 |
| 2 | TC1 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 36 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 52 | |||||
| 3 | C. estertheticum | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 17 | ||||
| 4 | C. algidixylanolyticum | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 13 | ||||||
| 5 | Clostridium sp. CYP7 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
| 6 | B. propionicifaciens | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 7 | Uncultured bacterium clone HTE5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 8 | Uncultured bacterium clone HDBW-WB50 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 9 | C. propionicum | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 10 | C. bowmanii | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 11 | C. beijerinckii | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 12 | C. botulinum type E | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 13 | C. glycolicum | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 14 | Clostridium sp. strain CYP11 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 15 | Clostridium sp. strain V13 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 16 | C. thiosulfatireducens | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 17 | C. xylanolyticum | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 18 | Swine effluent bacterium CHNDP10 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 19 | Swine effluent bacterium CHNDP4 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 20 | Uncultured bacterium clone AKIW891 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 21 | C. botulinum type F | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 22 | Uncultured bacterium clone Hg16 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 23 | Uncultured bacterium clone ORSPEP_b09 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 24 | Uncultured rumen bacterium clone BS40 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 25 | Vagococcus sp. YS32a | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Unidentified | 2 | 6 | 8 | |||||||||||
| Total | 8 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 101 | 266 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 431 | |
a
Facultative anaerobic isolate.
b
BLAST analysis using the NCBI nucleotide sequence database identified each isolate with similarity values of ≥98%. S, soil; T, transport; L, lairage; BA, bleeding area; HP, hide puller; ET, evisceration table; F, feces; H, hides; HV, hooves; C, carcasses; BH, boning hall; P, purge from blown packs.