Table 3.
Recovery of Campylobacter from chicken intestines and extra-intestinal organs.
| Campylobacter isolates | Caecal content (log10 CFU/g) | Recovery by enrichment |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liver | Heart | Spleen | Breast meat | Kidney | ||
| CLB44 | 7.7 ± 0.82 | 2/6 (33%) | 1/6 (17%) | 0/6 (0%) | 0/6 (0%) | 0/6 (0%) |
| CLB68 | 8.0 ± 0.37 | 1/7 (14%) | 0/7 (0%) | 0/7 (0%) | 0/7 (0%) | 1/7 (14%) |
| CLB104 | 7.5 ± 0.43 | 3/7 (43%) | 1/7 (14%) | 1/7 (14%) | 0/7 (0%) | 3/7 (43%) |
| HPC5 | 7.4 ± 0.70 | 0/7 (0%) | 0/7 (0%) | 0/7 (0%) | 0/7 (0%) | 0/7 (0%) |
| 81–176 | 7.2 ± 0.47 | 0/7 (0%) | 0/7 (0%) | 0/7 (0%) | 0/7 (0%) | 0/7 (0%) |