Antimicrobial resistance in food of plant origin Lebensmitteln (AMR-GREEN-2)

• Unité de recherche: OSAV
• Numéro de projet: 4.23.05

Description succincte (Anglais)

According to EFSA, one of the research priorities is to standardize culturomics/genomics-based detection methods to track currently important and emerging antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs. A recent study about the diversity of potential pathogens inhabiting the phyllosphere of fresh vegetables showed how the genera Pseudomonas, Klebsiella and Acinetobacter are highly abundant in fresh produce such as lettuce and coriander, while Enterococcus and some members of Enterobacteriaceae could also be present. Therefore, following the mentioned guidelines and according to the last scientific findings, a new approach will be developed to surveillance foodborne resistant pathogens in fresh produce and thus fill the gaps about their role on the spread of AMR.

Objectifs du projet (Anglais)

he main objective of this project is to develop a protocol to monitor ARB and ARGs in fresh produce. With a new approach using specific-enrichments for each target foodborne pathogen, it is expected to collect more isolates and to establish correlations between the prevalence of ARGs and ARB, which would elucidate the use of ARGs as indicators for ARB load. Special attention will be paid to isolate ESKAPE pathogens together with Salmonella spp., Campylobacter spp. and Enterobacterales. Finally, a literature review would be included to summarize mitigation strategies to avoid the spreading of AMR in fresh produce production sector.

Résumé des résultats (Abstract) (Allemand)

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Documents annexés

• AMR Green Summary [PDF] 198 kB