Presented at 2013 Arkansas Association for Food Protection annual conference.
Irene Hanning
Assistant Professor
University of Tennessee
Department of Food Science and Technology
7. Histological development
• Ecology of microflora impacts histology of the GI
tract
• Germ-free birds show reduction in relative weight
and length of intestines.
• Altered amounts of lamina propria, lymphoid
tissue, reticuloendothelial cells, intestinal weight
and moisture in germ-free birds (Stutz et al. 1983).
11. Intestinal community
• Educate the immune system
• Protection from pathogen colonization
• Taking up space
• Production of antimicrobial substances
• Synthesize vitamins
• Breakdown indigestible substances
• Reduce allergic responses
• Impact nutrient acquisition
21. Antibiotics
• Tend to “stabilize” the gut populations
• Antibiotics reduce the relative weight and length of the
intestines (Visek, 1978; Postma et al., 1999).
• Increase growth rate
• Improve health
• Reduce infections
23. Campylobacter gains resistance from the environment
• Fluoroquinolones used in poultry production
• Results in Cipro-resistant Campylobacter
• Banned in 2005
• Resistance conferred fitness in the absence of selection
pressure……
……..Hence persistence of resistance
24. Campylobacter gains resistance from the environment
• Tylosin – a macrolide used in chickens as therapeutic/prophylactic
agents for the control of chronic respiratory diseases caused by
mycoplasmas and as subtherapeutic agents for improving growth
rates and feed efficiency
• At 0.53 g/L of water -reduced Campy and no resistance obtained
• At 0.05g /Kg of feed – Campy resistance emerged
• Highly resistant strains with mutation in the 23S RNA gene
• Lower resistance levels no mutation, utilized CmeABC efflux pump
28. Campylobacter control efforts
Belguim study reports lowering load of Campylobacter by 2 logs would reduce
the number of cases by 84% (Messens et al. 2007)
Danish study reports 2 logs can reduce incidences by 97% (Rosenquist et al.
2003)
29. Campylobacter control efforts
• Increase scalding water temperature
• Improve evisceration techniques
• More water during processing
• Forced air-chilling
• Disinfectants in the water
………….Reducing exposure of carcasses
to fecal materials
33. AcknowledgementsU of Arkansas
• Poultry Science
• Mike Slavik
• Dan Donoghue
• John Marcy
• Yan-Bin Li
• Casey Owens
• Billy Hargis
• Hong Wang
• Geetha Kumar
• Ann Woo-ming
• Food Science
• Steve Ricke
• Phil Crandall
• John-Francios Meullenet
• Latha Devereddy
• Sun-Yook Lee
• Biological Sciences
• David McNabb
• Ines Pinto
• Carmen Padilla
• Chemistry
• Roger Koeppe
• Animal Sciences
• Charlie Rosenkrans
• Plant Sciences
• Ken Korth
• Carlos Avilos
• UTK
• Qixin Zhong
• Michael Davidson
• Ann Draughon
• David Golden
• John Mount
• Frederico Harte
• William Morris
• Doris D’Souza
• Dwight Loveday
• Jennifer Richards
• Svetlana Zivanovic
• Chayapa
Techathuvanan
• Bill Brown
• Steve Oliver
• Chicago Field Museum
• Jacques Hill
• U of Delaware
• Mark Parcells
• U of Minnesota
• Tim Johnson
• Randall Singer
• MIT
• Eric Alm
• Arne Materna
• Lawrence David
• Cobb-Vantress
• Robin Jarquin
• Joe Schultz
• Tyson Foods, Inc.
• John
• Pel-Freeze
• Regina Stowe
• Gerber Products
• Melanie Reed
• Rama Holloway
• Susan Allen
• Jarius David
• Cargill
• Brian Woo-ming
• USDA
• Ann Donoghue
• Bill Huff
• Jerri Huff
• Naryan Rath
• FDA
• Rajesh Nayak
• Steve Foley
• Jin Han
During the first week of life, the gut undergoes rapid maturation such that elongation of the villi reaches 50 per cent of adult villus size. The expression of total mucosa surface area per bodyweight, i.e., the total surface area of each intestinal segment related to body weight, shows a peak between thesecond and the third week of age. Thus, maximal intestinal development occurs in the period between the day ofhatching and the 2nd–3rd week of life. This coincideswith the exhaustion of the yolk sac contents. At this timethere is an abrupt change in the source of nutrients sincethe yolk sac, a parenteral source of nutrients rich in lipids, is replaced by a carbohydrate-rich solid diet(Buddington and Diamond 1989).
During the first week of life, the gut undergoes rapid maturation such that elongation of the villi reaches 50 per cent of adult villus size. The expression of total mucosa surface area per bodyweight, i.e., the total surface area of each intestinal segment related to body weight, shows a peak between thesecond and the third week of age. Thus, maximal intestinal development occurs in the period between the day ofhatching and the 2nd–3rd week of life. This coincideswith the exhaustion of the yolk sac contents. At this timethere is an abrupt change in the source of nutrients sincethe yolk sac, a parenteral source of nutrients rich in lipids, is replaced by a carbohydrate-rich solid diet(Buddington and Diamond 1989).
Lets talk about how factors within the gut impact the normal flora because Campylobacter is so dependent on the microflora.
During the first week of life, the gut undergoes rapid maturation such that elongation of the villi reaches 50 per cent of adult villus size. The expression of total mucosa surface area per bodyweight, i.e., the total surface area of each intestinal segment related to body weight, shows a peak between thesecond and the third week of age. Thus, maximal intestinal development occurs in the period between the day ofhatching and the 2nd–3rd week of life. This coincideswith the exhaustion of the yolk sac contents. At this timethere is an abrupt change in the source of nutrients sincethe yolk sac, a parenteral source of nutrients rich in lipids, is replaced by a carbohydrate-rich solid diet(Buddington and Diamond 1989).
During the first week of life, the gut undergoes rapid maturation such that elongation of the villi reaches 50 per cent of adult villus size. The expression of total mucosa surface area per bodyweight, i.e., the total surface area of each intestinal segment related to body weight, shows a peak between thesecond and the third week of age. Thus, maximal intestinal development occurs in the period between the day ofhatching and the 2nd–3rd week of life. This coincideswith the exhaustion of the yolk sac contents. At this timethere is an abrupt change in the source of nutrients sincethe yolk sac, a parenteral source of nutrients rich in lipids, is replaced by a carbohydrate-rich solid diet(Buddington and Diamond 1989).
During the first week of life, the gut undergoes rapid maturation such that elongation of the villi reaches 50 per cent of adult villus size. The expression of total mucosa surface area per bodyweight, i.e., the total surface area of each intestinal segment related to body weight, shows a peak between thesecond and the third week of age. Thus, maximal intestinal development occurs in the period between the day ofhatching and the 2nd–3rd week of life. This coincideswith the exhaustion of the yolk sac contents. At this timethere is an abrupt change in the source of nutrients sincethe yolk sac, a parenteral source of nutrients rich in lipids, is replaced by a carbohydrate-rich solid diet(Buddington and Diamond 1989).
During the first week of life, the gut undergoes rapid maturation such that elongation of the villi reaches 50 per cent of adult villus size. The expression of total mucosa surface area per bodyweight, i.e., the total surface area of each intestinal segment related to body weight, shows a peak between thesecond and the third week of age. Thus, maximal intestinal development occurs in the period between the day ofhatching and the 2nd–3rd week of life. This coincideswith the exhaustion of the yolk sac contents. At this timethere is an abrupt change in the source of nutrients sincethe yolk sac, a parenteral source of nutrients rich in lipids, is replaced by a carbohydrate-rich solid diet(Buddington and Diamond 1989).
During the first week of life, the gut undergoes rapid maturation such that elongation of the villi reaches 50 per cent of adult villus size. The expression of total mucosa surface area per bodyweight, i.e., the total surface area of each intestinal segment related to body weight, shows a peak between thesecond and the third week of age. Thus, maximal intestinal development occurs in the period between the day ofhatching and the 2nd–3rd week of life. This coincideswith the exhaustion of the yolk sac contents. At this timethere is an abrupt change in the source of nutrients sincethe yolk sac, a parenteral source of nutrients rich in lipids, is replaced by a carbohydrate-rich solid diet(Buddington and Diamond 1989).
SO we know that these factors impact the normal microflora, but how does this impact campy? And does Campy change with the community?
I like to think about all the organisms within a microcosm and what they are doing, not just the pathogens or the bacteria of interest, because all the other organisms around can have a significant impact on that organism of interest.
I like to think about all the organisms within a microcosm and what they are doing, not just the pathogens or the bacteria of interest, because all the other organisms around can have a significant impact on that organism of interest.
I want to talk a little about Campylobacter as it’s the pathogen I’ve worked with the most. I did my Ph.D. work on Campy and I continue now to work with it, but I’m also branching out and working with Salmonella, E. coli and Listeria.
SO we know that these factors impact the normal microflora, but how does this impact campy? And does Campy change with the community?
arsenate is an uncoupler of glycolysis, explaining its toxicityArsenite is more potent that arsenate and more difficult to remove from the drinking water.
The fact that campy colonizes at 2 to 3 weeks poses an additional challenge.Process of colonization to give info which will allow us to effectively design probiotics
A large portion of Pre-harvest food animal community microbiology studies are focused on probiotics and prebiotics. Questions like…..Also, we are interested in sources of contamination to our food animals and aim to answer questions like……..
Reducing the total load on carcasses by 2 logs has a direct correlation to the reduction of number of campylobacterisos cases. However, reducing the load on carcasses had no impact on the number of positive carcasses. So the load has no correlation with positives in processing because you have cross-contamination regardless of the load. But on the human side it makes sense because increasing the load increases the risk of infection.