Effect of poultry meat and its handlers in the local markets with germs Campylobacter jejunilcoli

Abstract

The study was conducted for isolation and identification of Campylobacter jejuni/coli from contaminated poultry meat (poultry carcasses and edible livers) which was collected from retails including both local and imported sorts. Samplesfrom employees dealing with poultry meat were also included. Out of 372 poultry meat samplescollected from retails, 49 samples were positive with a percentage of 13.16% of C. jejuni/coli, of which 43 samples11.55% for C. jejuni and 6 samples 1.61 o/o for C. coli. Local poultry meat and edible livers samplesshowed significant differences in isolation rate23 .9% for local poultry carcasses, and ·13.4% for livers; compared with the imported poultry carcasses 5.6%, thigh 9.8%; and edible livers 5.4%. In addition, retailemployees showed isolation rate of 14.3%. Biotyping of C. jejuni isolates showed that biotype I was the predominant one with a percentage of74.4%, followed by biotypell, III, 11.63%, and the lowest was biotypeIV 2.3%. However, all of the C. coli isolates were belonged to biotype I 100%. Antimicrobial sensitivity to different Campylobacter isolates showed high sensitivity rate to Nitrofuratoin, Neomycin, Gentamycin and Tetracyclin, with absolute resistancy to penicilline and Amoxycilline.

Keywords

• germs
• poultry
• biotyping