Table 1.
Frequency of Campylobacter spp. colonies directly isolated from mCCDA and Campy-Cefex agar plates with or without broth enrichment in different samples from the broiler slaughtering process.
| Sample | Direct isolation Agar Campy-Cefex (%) |
Direct isolation Agar mCCDA (%) |
Enrichment broth and agar isolation* (%) | Total of analyzed samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swabs | 100 | 100 | 100 | 12 |
| Carcasses pre-chiller | 100 | 25 | 100 | 12 |
| Pre-chiller water | 100 | 75 | 100 | 12 |
| Chiller water | 100 | 66 | 100 | 12 |
| Carcasses post-chiller | 83 | 67 | 100 | 12 |
| Water supply | 100 | 50 | 100 | 12 |
*
Bolton broth, Campy-Cefex and mCCDA agars.