<i>Citrobacter braakii</i> Isolated from Salami and Soft Cheese: An Emerging Food Safety Hazard?

ABSTRACT: Citrobacter braakii can colonize the intestinal tract of humans and animals and occasionally act as opportunistic pathogen. Although isolated from food and the environment, its potential as a foodborne pathogen remains uncertain. Twenty C. braakii isolates were previously collected from salami and soft cheese artisanal productions. In the present study, the potentialities of C. braakii as a food safety hazard were explored by a genomic comparison of C. braakii newly sequenced genomes with publicly available genomes, including those of clinical relevance, and a pathogenicity assessment in Galleria mellonella as an in vivo infection model. Phylogenomic reconstruction revealed that one salami clone and two C. braakii genomes of the soft cheese product

SUBMITTER: Pasquali F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12154454 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature