Dairy farm Campylobacteraceae

Infection with Campylobacter is considered to be the most common bacterial cause of human gastroenteritis worldwide. In light of the dramatic increase of antibiotic resistant bacteria, alternative solutions including biological controls such as bacteriophage therapy and bacteriophage biosanitization...

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Main Author: Saeedi, Ahmed Abdullah Hamad
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/64413/
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description Infection with Campylobacter is considered to be the most common bacterial cause of human gastroenteritis worldwide. In light of the dramatic increase of antibiotic resistant bacteria, alternative solutions including biological controls such as bacteriophage therapy and bacteriophage biosanitization are being considered. One way in which campylobacters enter the human food chain is through consumption of contaminated raw milk. An updated study of the ability of campylobacters to survive in milk, including species other than C. jejuni, was carried out. Isolation of bacteriophages from bovine slurry, with potential for biocontrol and therapeutic purposes was attempted using conventional methods. Campylobacter and Arcobacter hosts were isolated and characterised, including genome sequencing, from the same environment. The method used for this purpose was proven efficacious for porcine slurry; however, no lytic phage were isolated from bovine samples. During the isolation experiments unusual plaques were formed on the lawn of the C. hyointestinalis S12 host strain. The causative agent of this lytic activity was found to be due to a new predatory bacterium, which was characterised with respect host range and genome sequence. Phylogenetic analysis placed the new bacterium in the family Oceanospirillaceae and the name Venatorbacter cucullus gen. nov. sp. nov proposed.
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spelling nottingham-644132025-02-28T12:25:32Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/64413/ Dairy farm Campylobacteraceae Saeedi, Ahmed Abdullah Hamad Infection with Campylobacter is considered to be the most common bacterial cause of human gastroenteritis worldwide. In light of the dramatic increase of antibiotic resistant bacteria, alternative solutions including biological controls such as bacteriophage therapy and bacteriophage biosanitization are being considered. One way in which campylobacters enter the human food chain is through consumption of contaminated raw milk. An updated study of the ability of campylobacters to survive in milk, including species other than C. jejuni, was carried out. Isolation of bacteriophages from bovine slurry, with potential for biocontrol and therapeutic purposes was attempted using conventional methods. Campylobacter and Arcobacter hosts were isolated and characterised, including genome sequencing, from the same environment. The method used for this purpose was proven efficacious for porcine slurry; however, no lytic phage were isolated from bovine samples. During the isolation experiments unusual plaques were formed on the lawn of the C. hyointestinalis S12 host strain. The causative agent of this lytic activity was found to be due to a new predatory bacterium, which was characterised with respect host range and genome sequence. Phylogenetic analysis placed the new bacterium in the family Oceanospirillaceae and the name Venatorbacter cucullus gen. nov. sp. nov proposed. 2021-03-15 Thesis (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en arr https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/64413/1/Ahmed%20Saeedi%20thesis%20.pdf Saeedi, Ahmed Abdullah Hamad (2021) Dairy farm Campylobacteraceae. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham. Campylobacteraceae Campylobacter Bacteriophage therapy Bacteriophage biosanitization
spellingShingle Campylobacteraceae
Campylobacter
Bacteriophage therapy
Bacteriophage biosanitization
Saeedi, Ahmed Abdullah Hamad
Dairy farm Campylobacteraceae
title Dairy farm Campylobacteraceae
title_full Dairy farm Campylobacteraceae
title_fullStr Dairy farm Campylobacteraceae
title_full_unstemmed Dairy farm Campylobacteraceae
title_short Dairy farm Campylobacteraceae
title_sort dairy farm campylobacteraceae
topic Campylobacteraceae
Campylobacter
Bacteriophage therapy
Bacteriophage biosanitization
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/64413/