Detection of Enteric Bacteria in Raw Food Samples from Vietnam ...

List of Tables
Table 1.1: PCR used for detecting different E. coli pathotypes .............................................. 26
Table 2.1: Typical biochemical reactions of V. parahaemolyticus and V. cholerae. .............. 67
Table 2.2: Bacterial strains and bacteriophage provided ......................................................... 69
Table 3.1: Prevalence of E. coli, Salmonella spp. and Vibrio spp. in retail shops .................. 87
Table 3.2: Distribution of ninety one Salmonella spp. isolates according to serogroups ........ 95
Table 3.3: Distribution of Salmonella serotypes in meat, poultry and shellfish samples ........ 97
Table 3.4: Salmonella spp. isolates which have identical PFGE patterns ............................. 105
Table 3.5: Percentage of Salmonella spp. isolates which were resistant, intermediate
resistant and susceptible to different antibiotics .................................................. 111
Table 3.6: Percentage of resistance to different numbers of antibiotics in Salmonella
spp. isolates .......................................................................................................... 117
Table 3.7: Information about antibiotic resistance, serogroups, and serotypes of all
Salmonella spp. multiresistant isolates ................................................................ 119
Table 3.8: Antibiotic resistance patterns of Salmonella spp. isolates of different
serogroups ............................................................................................................ 121
Table 3.9: Percentage of E. coli isolates which were resistant, intermediate resistant and
susceptible to different antibiotics ....................................................................... 125
Table 3.10: Percentage of E. coli isolates which were resistant to different numbers of
antibiotics ............................................................................................................. 131
Table 3.11: Susceptibility of V. parahaemolyticus isolates from shellfish to various
antibiotics ............................................................................................................. 133
Table 4.1: Summary of 3 multiplex and 3 uniplex PCRs for the amplification of ARGs ..... 143
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