GOAT MEAT – IMPORTANT FOOD OR VECTOR FOR ZOONOTIC MICROORGANISMS
Snežana Ivanović1*, Milenko Žutić1, Ivan Pavlović1, Miroslav Žujović2
1Veterinary Institute of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
2Institute for Animal Husbandry, Belgrade–Zemun, Serbia
snezaivanovic@gmail.com
Goat meat is food but it can also be as other animals a carrier of bacteria that cause poisoning of peo¬ple. Lately more and more bacteria of the genus Campylobacter and Escherichia coli have become very important causes of gas-troenteritis and alimentary intoxications of humans. Campylobacter species are spread everywhere in nature in water, land, and particularly in the alimentary tract of animals. One of the important properties of these bacteria is to produce toxins. To humans they can be transmitted from animals, as sources of infection, in many ways, mostly by contaminated meat, milk and water. Many alimentary diseases in the world are caused by en¬terohemorhagic E. coli O157:H7. Of the five known types of E. coli, that cause human diarrhea, the most pathogen is E. coli O157:H7, which, as well as some other types, produces a strong toxin. This pathogen causes hemorrhagic co¬litis in humans, hemolytic uremic syndrome and thrombocytopenic purpura. The coat intestinal tract can be a large reser¬voir of E. coli O157:H7. Most infections with E. coli O157:H7 have alimentary origin, although in some cases the horizontal infection is possible – from person to person. The research was done within the project TP 20005, "Improving of productive performances and quality of goat and kid meat in the ecological system of raising”, funded by the Ministry of Science of the Republic of Serbia
Keywords: goats; meat; Campylobacter spp.; E. Coli O157:H7; zoonotic infection
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