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Dr. Ihab Habib

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Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, United Arab of Emirates University, Al Ain 52571, United Arab Emirates
Interests: Campylobacter; Salmonella; One Health; Antimicrobial Resistance
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Dr. Sofia Boqvist

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Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Science and Veterinary Public Health; Division of Bacteriology and Food Safety, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden
Interests: food safety; zoonoses; veterinary public health; one health

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The interface between humans, animals, and the environments we share can be a source of diseases that impact public health and the social and economic well-being of the world population. This Special Issue will promote a holistic research approach towards the characterization and management of foodborne zoonoses in a One Health approach. This Special Issue welcomes research and reviews aiming towards a better understanding of the interdependent relationship between foodborne zoonoses and production animals we depend on for our food, livelihoods, and well-being, as well as with the environments we live and work in together. Research on farm-level biosecurity, food chain risk factors, and farm-to-fork baseline data on the prevalence of foodborne pathogens and their antimicrobial resistance and (molecular) epidemiology are also of interest and we encourage such submissions.

Dr. Ihab Habib
Dr. Sofia Boqvist
Guest Editors

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Keywords

Camlpylobacter
Salmonella
Foodborne Zoonoses
Farm Biosecurity
Molecular Epidemiology
Food Safety Risk Assessment
Antimicrobial resistance in the food chain
One Health
Novel food and emerging risk
Food hygiene in low and middle-income countries

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High Prevalence of Multiple Antibiotic-Resistant, Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase (ESBL)-Producing Escherichia coli in Fresh Seafood Sold in Retail Markets of Mumbai, India

by Asem Sanjit Singh, Binaya Bhusan Nayak and Sanath H. Kumar

Vet. Sci. 2020, 7(2), 46; https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci7020046 - 16 Apr 2020

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Abstract

In this study, fresh seafood in retail markets was investigated for the antibiotic susceptibility patterns of the faecal indicator Escherichia coli and distribution of important β-lactamase encoding genes. E. coli were isolated from 50 (37 fish and 13 shellfish) fresh seafood samples and studied with respect to the phenotypic and genotypic characters of antibiotic resistance. Of 475 E. coli isolates from fresh seafood, 71.58% exhibited extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-positive phenotypes. A high percentage of isolates were resistant to indicator cephalosporins cefotaxime (95%), cefpodoxime (90.88%) and ceftazidime (90.29%). Relatively higher susceptibilities were recorded against imipenem (74.41%), cefoxitin (66.76%) and meropenem (51.18%). The multiple antibiotic resistance (MAR) index of 97.35% of the isolates was above 0.18. The ESBL genes bla_CTX-M, bla_SHV and bla_TEM were detected in 62.37%, 23.35% and 2.6% of E. coli isolates, respectively. The ESBL-producing isolates also harboured the metallo-β-lactamase-encoding genes bla_OXA (7.06%), bla_NDM (4.42%) and bla_VIM (0.88%). This study highlights the risk of dissemination of multidrug resistant E. coli in seafood consumer communities and also the need to improve the hygiene of the coastal waters, landing centres and the retail markets. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Foodborne Zoonoses at the Human-Animal-Environment Interface)

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Food Safety Considerations Related to the Consumption and Handling of Game Meat in North America

by Hayden D. Hedman, Csaba Varga, Jared Duquette, Jan Novakofski and Nohra E. Mateus-Pinilla

Vet. Sci. 2020, 7(4), 188; https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci7040188 - 25 Nov 2020

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Emerging foodborne pathogens present a threat to public health. It is now recognized that several foodborne pathogens originate from wildlife as demonstrated by recent global disease outbreaks. Zoonotic spillover events are closely related to the ubiquity of parasitic, bacterial, and viral pathogens present within human and animal populations and their surrounding environment. Foodborne diseases have economic and international trade impacts, incentivizing effective wildlife disease management. In North America, there are no food safety standards for handling and consumption of free-ranging game meat. Game meat consumption continues to rise in North America; however, this growing practice could place recreational hunters and game meat consumers at increased risk of foodborne diseases. Recreational hunters should follow effective game meat food hygiene practices from harvest to storage and consumption. Here, we provide a synthesis review that evaluates the ecological and epidemiological drivers of foodborne disease risk in North American hunter populations that are associated with the harvest and consumption of terrestrial mammal game meat. We anticipate this work could serve as a foundation of preventive measures that mitigate foodborne disease transmission between free-ranging mammalian and human populations. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Foodborne Zoonoses at the Human-Animal-Environment Interface)

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