Table 1.
Campylobacter in the poultry gastrointestinal tract.
| Poultry | Sample | Sample number | Prevalence of Campylobacter | Campylobacter spp. counts (log CFU/g) | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Market-age broiler chickens | Ceca | 240 | 9 samples positive (3.8%) | – | Byrd et al., 1998 |
| Crop | 359 | 224 samples positive (62.4%) | – | ||
| New York-dressed broiler | Ceca | 128 (32 birds ∗ 4 repetition) | 128 samples positive (100%) with direct plating 81 sample positive (63%) after enrichment | 6.8 | Musgrove et al., 2001 |
| Crop | 128 (32 birds ∗ 4 repetition) | 122 samples positive (95.3%) with direct plating 127 samples positive (99.2%) after enrichment | 3.7 | ||
| Market-weight turkey | Ceca | 84 | 2 samples C. jejuni positive (2.1%) | – | Wesley et al., 2005 |
| 96 samples C. coli positive (100%) | – | ||||
| Crop | 96 | 11 samples C. jejuni positive (13.1%) | – | ||
| 61 samples C. coli positive (72.6%) | – | ||||
| Turkey during slaughtering | Ceca at evisceration step | 30 (collected on July) | 30 samples positive (100%) | 6.0 | Bily et al., 2010 |
| 30 (collected on Sep) | 22 samples positive (73.3%) | 2.1 | |||
| 30 (collected on Oct) | 30 samples positive (100%) | 7.2 | |||
| 30 (collected on Nov) | 30 samples positive (100%) | 6.0 | |||
| Chicken | Ceca | 24 | – | 8.5 | Van Gerwe et al., 2010b |
| Crop | 23 | – | 4.8 | ||
| Chicken | Gizzard | 4 male | – | 2.5 | Yusrizal and Chen, 2003 |
| 4 female | – | 2.5 | |||
| Small Intestine | 4 male | – | 3.6 | ||
| 4 female | – | 3.8 | |||
| Large intestine | 4 male | – | 5.3 | ||
| 4 female | – | 5.4 | |||
| Cecal intestine | 4 male | – | 5.3 | ||
| 4 female | – | 4.4 | |||