ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE IN SEAFOODS, AND NON-THERMAL FOOD PROCESSING
- Irene Ortega Blázquez 1
- María José Grande Burgos 1
- Pilar Martínez Viedma 1
- Julia Toledo del Árbol 1
- Mari Carmen López Aguayo 1
- Rubén Pérez Pulido 1
- Rosario Lucas 1
- Antonio Gálvez 1
- 1 University of Jaen, Department of Health Sciences. Jaen, Spain
ISSN: 2455-7668
Año de publicación: 2018
Volumen: 4
Número: 11
Páginas: 20-27
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: IJRDO-JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND RESEARCH
Resumen
Seafoods may carry strains of bacterial pathogens resistant to clinically-used antibiotics. This review summarizes recent work on antimicrobial resistance from seafoods. Since ready-to-eat seafoods may also be at risk of transmitting antimicrobial resistance through the food chain, it is important to analyse how food processing methods may affect the bacterial populations in foods. Recent studies based on high-hydrostatic pressure applied on seafoods in combination with natural antimicrobials (bacteriocins and essentialoils) indicate that the combined treatments achieve a greatestreduction of bacterial loads in the food. Nevertheless, application of high-throughput sequencing technology to study the dynamics of bacterial population surviving treatments reveals complex changes in bacterial populations during food storage. This makes necessary to further study the antimicrobial resistance in those strains surviving treatments and which may be consumed along with the processed food.