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Poultry Science, Vol 84, Issue 4, 621-625
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Penetration of Salmonella enteritidis and Salmonella heidelberg into egg yolks in an in vitro contamination model

RK Gast, PS Holt, and T Murase

United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory, Athens, Georgia 30605, USA. rgast@seprl.usda.gov

Eggs that harbor Salmonella in their edible contents pose a significant risk of transmitting disease to consumers. Although Salmonella deposition inside yolks does not usually occur at a high frequency in naturally contaminated eggs, bacterial penetration through the vitelline membrane could lead to rapid and extensive multiplication in the nutrient-rich yolk contents. The present study used an in vitro egg contamination model to assess the ability of Salmonella strains to penetrate the vitelline membrane and multiply inside yolks. An S. enteritidis strain and 2 Salmonella heidelberg strains, initially inoculated onto the outside of the vitelline membrane, were able to enter the yolk contents (at frequencies ranging from 10 to 25% of experimentally contaminated eggs) during 24 h of incubation at 30 degrees C. Variants of these parent strains, obtained by in vivo passage into eggs laid by infected hens, penetrated the yolk membrane at significantly higher frequencies. These results demonstrate that pathogens such as S. enteritidis and S. heidelberg can penetrate into and begin to multiply inside the yolks of contaminated eggs during the first day of storage at warm temperatures.


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