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ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2013

Update on antibiotic resistance in foodborne Lactobacillus and Lactococcus species.

Chiara Devirgiliis, Paola Zinno, Giuditta Perozzi

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Review in Frontiers in microbiology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers.

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59citing papers in PubMed
15.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

59 citing papers in PubMed, 162 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Occurrence of Antibiotic Resistance inAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  7. Journal of clinical microbiology · 2025
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  11. The Invisible Threat of Antibiotic Resistance in Food.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  20. Identification and characterization of potential probiotic lactic acid bacteria isolated from pig feces at various production stages.Canadian journal of veterinary research = Revue canadienne de recherche veterinaire · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Chiara DevirgiliisCRA-NUT, Food and Nutrition Research Center, Agricultural Research Council Roma, Italy.
Paola Zinno
Giuditta Perozzi
Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lactobacilli represent a major Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) component within the complex microbiota of fermented foods obtained from meat, dairy, and vegetable sources. Lactococci, on the other hand, are typical of milk and fermented dairy products, which in turn represent the vast majority of fermented foods. As is the case for all species originating from the environment, foodborne lactobacilli and lactococci consist of natural, uncharacterized strains, whose biodiversity depends on geographical origin, seasonality, animal feeding/plant growth conditions. Although a few species of opportunistic pathogens have been described, lactobacilli and lactococci are mostly non-pathogenic, Gram-positive bacteria displaying probiotic features. Since antibiotic resistant (AR) strains do not constitute an immediate threat to human health, scientific interest for detailed studies on AR genes in these species has been greatly hindered. However, increasing evidence points at a crucial role for foodborne LAB as reservoir of potentially transmissible AR genes, underlining the need for further, more detailed studies aimed at identifying possible strategies to avoid AR spread to pathogens through fermented food consumption. The availability of a growing number of sequenced bacterial genomes has been very helpful in identifying the presence/distribution of mobile elements associated with AR genes, but open questions and knowledge gaps still need to be filled, highlighting the need for systematic and datasharing approaches to implement both surveillance and mechanistic studies on transferability of AR genes. In the present review we report an update of the recent literature on AR in lactobacilli and lactococci following the 2006 EU-wide ban of the use of antibiotics as feed additives in animal farming, and we discuss the limits of the present knowledge in evaluating possible risks for human health.

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AR genesdairy fermentationfermented foodgrowth promotershorizontal gene transferlactic acid bacteriamicrobiota

Identifiers

PMID24115946
PMCPMC3792357
OpenAlexW1995479108

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