ABSTRACT
A high contamination rate was found in meat of slaughtered cattle and goats at the time of this study. Certain organisms were isolated from meat and also from wounds of slaughter workers. A high antibiotic resistance pattern was found - in some instances. Following observations of high surface meat contamination, associated with high antibiotic resistance, it must be assumed, that these highly resistant organisms can also be directly transmitted to humans by transport, transaction and by food preparation. This must be taken into consideration in the actual therapeutics.
Subject(s)
Abattoirs , Cattle/microbiology , Drug Resistance, Microbial , Food Microbiology , Goats/microbiology , Meat/adverse effects , Animals , Escherichia coli/drug effects , Humans , Klebsiella pneumoniae/drug effects , Occupational Diseases/microbiology , Proteus vulgaris/drug effects , Pseudomonas aeruginosa/drug effects , Wound Infection/microbiologyABSTRACT
Crows from Colombo's slaughter-house were examined serologically towards ornithosis, Rickettsia, Newcastle Disease and Adenovirus. Positive reactions were shown in ornithosis, Q-fever, RMSF-Rickettsia-group and Adenovirus.
Subject(s)
Antibodies/isolation & purification , Birds/immunology , Abattoirs , Agglutination Tests/veterinary , Animals , Chlamydophila psittaci/immunology , Complement Fixation Tests/veterinary , Q Fever/immunology , Rickettsia/immunology , Sri LankaABSTRACT
In Colombo/Sri Lanka wild dogs were investigated for various zoonoses. Based on the poor general conditions the contamination rate was relatively high. 27 of the 30 dog sera reacted positive against Listeriosis. 17 of the 29 samples reacted against Q-fever in low titers, however, because of the highly purified antigen used these are evaluated as positive. The contamination rate was 100%. 18 sera reacted positive against the RMSF-group antigen. 14 samples reacted positive against Chlamydiasis. 17 samples reacted positive against Echinococcosis and in the Brucellosis samples 3 were positive. 7 positive reactions were found against Adenovirus.
Subject(s)
Animals, Wild/immunology , Dog Diseases/immunology , Dogs/immunology , Zoonoses/microbiology , Animals , Brucella/immunology , Chlamydia/immunology , Coxiella/immunology , Echinococcosis/immunology , Listeria/immunology , Rickettsia/immunology , Sri LankaABSTRACT
Serological examinations of slaughtered animals (76 cattle and 184 goats) in the slaughter-house of Colombo/Sri Lanka revealed antibodies against Listeriosis, Brucellosis, Q-fever, RMSF-Rickettsia-group, Echinococcus and Adenoviruses. As the results show, part of this zooanthroponosis has a role to play in human medicine and human infections are to be expected.
