1. Prevalence of Campylobacter jejuni in poultry breeder flocks
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Lucia Francesca Menna, Gianluca Matteoli, Marzia Fontanella, Alessandra Cuomo, Antonio De Paola, Tiziana Pepe, Isolina Di Marco, Ludovico Dipineto, Lucia Francesca Menna, Gianluca Matteoli, Marzia Fontanella, Alessandra Cuomo, Antonio De Paola, Tiziana Pepe, Isolina Di Marco, and Ludovico Dipineto
- Abstract
The aim of this work is to present the preliminary results of a study about the prevalence of Campylobacter jejuni in poultry breeder flocks. It was examined three different breeder flocks of Bojano in Molise region. A total of 360 cloacal swabs and 80 environmental swabs was collected. Of the 3 flocks studied, 6.9% tested were positive for Campylobacter spp. The most-prevalent isolated species is C. jejuni (8.2%). Only 3 of the 360 cloacal swabs samples examined were associated with C. coli. The environmental swabs resulted negative. This results confirms again that poultry is a reservoir of this germ.
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- 2010