. 2019 Jun 25;8(2):87. doi: 10.3390/pathogens8020087

Table 2.

Occurrence of Campylobacter in Foods of Animal Origin.

Region/Country	Product	Sample Size	Percentage Positive	Genus/Species	Detection Procedure	Reference
EAST AFRICA
Ethiopia/South East Addis Ababa	Sheep and goat carcass	398	10.1	Campylobacter	Cultural	[63]
			72.5	C. jejuni
			27.5	C.coli
Kenya/Nairobi	Chicken	100	77	Campylobacter	Cultural	[64]
Kenya/Nairobi	Beef	50	2	Campylobacter	Cultural	[64]
Tanzania
Northern, South Western, Eastern	Beef carcass	253	9.5	Campylobacter	mPCR	[65]
Northern, South Western, Eastern	Raw milk	284	13.4	Campylobacter	mPCR	[65]
Morogoro/Eastern	Duck intestines	90	80	Campylobacter	Cultural with Skirrow’s protocol	[66]
Morogo/Eastern	Cattle carcass	107	9.3	Campylobacter	Cultural with Skirrow protocol	[67]
CENTRAL AFRICA
Cameroon/Yaounde	Chicken	150	90	Campylobacter	Cultural	[68]
Congo DR/Lubumbashi	Goat meat	177	41.2	Campylobacter	PCR	[69]
	Goat stomach	86	37.2
	Ready to eat goat skewer	139	23.7
WEST AFRICA
Burkina Faso/Ouagadougou	Chicken carcass	20	50	Campylobacter	Cultural	[70]
Ghana
Kumasi	Poultry carcass	132	21.9	Campylobacter	Cultural	[71]
			79	C. jejuni
			14	C. coli
			4	C. jejuni subs doylei
			3	C. lari
Kumasi	Cattle carcass	110	34.5	Campylobacter	Cultural, mPCR	[72]
	Goat carcass	134	23.9
	Sheep carcass	117	35.9
	Pig carcass	102	36.3
Nigeria
Sokoto/North Western	Raw milk	146	4.8	Campylobacter	Cultural	[73]
Sokoto/North Western	Raw milk	146	100	C. jejuni	Cultural	[73]
Sokoto/North western	Chicken	681	81.9	Campylobacter	Cultural	[74]
			60.9	C. jejuni
			39.1	C.coli
Senegal/Dakar	Chicken	300	56	Campylobacter	Cultural	[75]
SOUTHERN AFRICA
South Africa Gauteng/North	Chicken carcass	99	32.3	Campylobacter	Cultural	[76]
NORTH AFRICA
Algeria
Middle area	Turkey neck skin	100	55	Campylobacter	Cultural	[77]
Middle area; Algiers, Bouira, Boumerdes	Chicken neck, giblets	346	17.9	Campylobacter	Cultural with Butzler medium and Skirrow’s protocol	[78]
Egypt
Assiut/South of Cairo	Chicken	104	24	Campylobacter	Cultural	[52]
Qena city/Southern	Milk, cheese, yogurt	150	24.6	Campylobacter	Cultural, PCR	[79]
Cairo, Minya, Qalubiya and Fayoum	Yogurt	344	1.2	Campylobacter	Cultural	[55]
	Raw milk	457	2.0
	Cheese	288	1.7
	Chicken intestine	211	12.8
	Chicken meat	9.6	680
Zagazig/Eastern Nile Delta	Chicken breast	64	47.5	Campylobacter	Cultural	[56]
	Chicken thighs	64	25.9
	Chicken skin	64	21.6
Abou Homos/Northern	Milk, milk products	227	2.64	C. jejuni	mPCR	[80]
Morocco/ Oujda/Eastern	Poultry carcass	50	62	Campylobacter	Cultural, Hippurate hydrolysis	[81]
			90	C. jejuni
			10	C. coli