Incidence of Campylobacter in slaughtered chicken | ||||
| Suez Canal Veterinary Medical Journal. SCVMJ | ||||
| Article 24, Volume 19, Issue 2, December 2014, Page 289-296 PDF (150.51 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/scvmj.2014.65857 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Engy Hamed* 1; A. Ammar2; Mona Aly1; Soad Nasef1; A. Selim1 | ||||
| 1National Laboratory for Veterinary Quality Control on Poultry production, Animal Health Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Nady El-Seid Street, Dokki P.O. Box 246, Giza 12618, Egypt | ||||
| 2Microbiology Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Zagazig University, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| A total 2565 samples (1890 samples of frozen chicken, 660 samples of freshly slaughter chicken were collected from neck skin, cloacal skin and drip and 15 samples of washing containers) from super market and slaughter poultry house in Egypt and examined for presence of Campylobacter. The Campylobacter was detected by 16.7 % of all examined samples. Incidence of Campylobacter in frozen samples was 7.94 %, 1.59 %, 9.0 % in neck skin, cloacal skin and drip respectively. The results freshly slaughter chicken of revealed 32.73 % incidence of Campylobacter in samples. The incidence of Campylobacter in the examined washing water were 100%. The cross contamination was occurred during the slaughter processing. And Continues test of poultry carcasses and by-product before packing and distribution is highly recommended with application of good hygienic measure importance to reduce human infection. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Campylobacter; Incidence; frozen chicken; slaughtered chicken | ||||
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