Italian Journal of Animal Science (Jan 2010)

Prevalence of Campylobacter jejuni in poultry breeder flocks

  • Ludovico Dipineto,
  • Isolina Di Marco,
  • Tiziana Pepe,
  • Antonio De Paola,
  • Alessandra Cuomo,
  • Marzia Fontanella,
  • Gianluca Matteoli,
  • Lucia Francesca Menna

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4081/ijas.2005.269
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 3
pp. 269 – 271

Abstract

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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 enviromental 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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