To the best of our knowledge, the present study is the first description of E. albertii isolation from retail food, although E. albertii has previously been isolated from birds, including chickens [12], feline [14] and swine [4]. Because only 104 samples collected from a small area were tested in the present study, further analyses are needed to determine the prevalence of E. albertii in chicken products. However, this study supports the hypothesis that chicken products might be a potential vehicle of E. albertii transmission.
Sequences of strains in the present study were submitted to MLST databases run by the University of Warwick (http://mlst.warwick.ac.uk/mlst/) as ST4633.