Aerobic bacteria in bovine livers infested with fachiola gigantice

Abstract EN

133 samples from bovine livers infested with fachiola gigantic were aseptically collected from an abattoir and investigated for the presence of aerobic bacteria.

Different genera and species of bacteria were isolated with variable incidences.

These were Proteus species, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas species, Citrobacter aerogenes, Morganella morgani, Para colon species, Klebsiella species, Bacillus species, Streptococcus species, Corynebacterium species, Staphylococcus aureus, other Staphylococcus species, Micrococcus species and Aerococcus species.

Some of these isolates were of potential human health hazard.

It was concluded that such infested livers are unfit for human consumption and should not be passed during the postmortem examination.