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    Incidence of Listeria in fish and shellfish
    (Society of Fisheries Technologists (India), Cochin, 2008) Prasad, M.M.; Thampuran, N.
    Listeria IIIOIIOCIJIOSCIII!S has been recogn ized as an important food-borne pathogen since 1981 and scafo<1ds have been implicated in several sporadic cases of Listeriosis. In the present study f resh (57), iced (49) and frozen (84) fish and shell fish from cultured ponds and commercia l ou tlets were screened for Listeriae. A mong the sa mples of f resh cul tured fish,1.8% conta ined Listeria imwwa. The iced Penneus iurlicus (I'UD) and Penaeus mouodo11 con tained 20% l.isleria spp., comprising L. iuuown and L. ivauovii. Listerin spp. were detected in 14.28% of the frozen fish samples also. Lislcrin mOIIOCIJIOgeues could not be detected in any of the samples.