Table 2.
Distribution of Campylobacter spp. Recovered from Milk and Carcass Samples from Three Municipalities in Tanzania
| Microorganisms | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Source of isolates | Sampling location | No. of samples | Total isolates (%) | Campylobacter jejuni (%) | Campylobacter coli (%) | C. jejuni/C. coli (%) | OTC (%)a |
| Cattle carcass | Morogoro | 100 | 15 (15.0) | 10 (10.0) | 4 (4.0) | 1 (1.0) | 0 |
| Arusha | 105 | 7 (6.6) | 4 (3.8) | 2 (1.9) | 0 | 1 (1.0) | |
| Iringa | 48 | 2 (4.2) | 1 (2.1) | 1 (2.1) | 0 | 0 | |
| Raw milk | Morogoro | 112 | 24 (21.4) | 17 (15.2) | 5 (4.5) | 0 | 2 (1.8) |
| Arusha | 100 | 7 (7.0) | 0 | 5 (5.0) | 0 | 2 (2.0) | |
| Iringa | 72 | 7 (9.7) | 4 (5.6) | 2 (2.8) | 0 | 1 (1.4) | |
| Total | 537 | 62 (11.6) | 36 (96.7) | 19 (3.5) | 1 (0.2) | 6 (1.1) | |
a
OTC, other Campylobacter spp. different from C. jejuni and C. coli.