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Prevalence of Arcobacter in shellfish using culturing and molecular detection by m-PCR in parallel
| Shellfish type | No. of samples | No. (%) of positive samples | No. (%) of positive samples by method |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Only culturing | Only m-PCR | Culturing and m-PCR | |||
| Mussels | 171 | 55 (32.2) | 26 (15.2) | 5 (2.9) | 24 (14.0) |
| Oysters | 23 | 4 (17.4) | 1 (4.3) | 0 | 3 (13.0) |
| Clams | 5 | 2 (40) | 0 | 0 | 2 (40) |
| Bean clams | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 204 | 61 (29.9) | 27 (13.2) | 5 (2.5) | 29 (14.2) |
