Vol. 11, Special Issue 11 (2022)

Author(s):
Nilam N Parmar, MN Brahmbhatt, JB Nayak, UP Mistry, Shreya Dubey and Mayank Goswami

Abstract:
Present study was conducted to detect the prevalence of major virulence genes of Enterococcus spp. from raw chicken meat. Total 80 isolates of the Enterococcus spp. were recovered from the 150 chicken meat sample by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and all the isolates were further screened for virulence associated genes, namely aggregation substance (asa), enterococcal surface protein (esp), cytolysin (cyl), gelatinase (gelE), hyaluronidase (hyl). Study revealed that prevalence of gelE gene was comparatively high (88.75%) followed by asa gene (40.47%), esp gene (15%) and cylA gene (11.25%). None of the Enterococcus spp. isolates harbor hyl gene.