Analysis of the microbiota of raw commercial feline diets to prioritize food safety investigations.

ABSTRACT: Microbiota sharing between people and their companion animals is a concern for development of antimicrobial resistance. To assess the risks associated with feeding raw products to cats, with an emphasis on previously understudied freeze-dried products, a collection of 112 conventional and raw products was purchased and investigated using a combination of cultivation and high-throughput sequencing techniques. Here we show that bacterial cultures were exclusively isolated from raw foods. A total of 19 genera were cultured including Salmonella, Clostridium, Escherichia, Klebsiella, Enterobacter, and Cronobacter. Carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Pseudomonas fulva, and Stenotrophomonas lactitubi were isolated from frozen raw products, and 6 Bacillus strains harbored carbapenemase

SUBMITTER: Reboul G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12460818 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature