Table 4.
Combined unadjusted Campylobacter prevalence and species for food animal type and various sample types, 1979–2015.
| Host animal type | Sample stage | Sample type | No. of samples tested | No. of samples positive (%) |
Campylobacter species when isolates were typed from positive samples |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C. jejuni (%) | C. coli (%) | Other C. spp.a (%) | |||||||||
| Buffalo | Gut | Intestinal contents | 55 | 0 | (0.0) | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| TOTAL | 55 | 0 | (0.0) | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| Camel | Gut | Faeces/Rectal swab | 3 | 0 | (0.0) | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| TOTAL | 3 | 0 | (0.0) | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| Cattle | Gut | Faeces/Rectal swab | 4957 | 733 | (14.8) | 512 | (68.7) | 187 | (25.1) | 46 | (6.2) |
| Gut | Intestinal contents | 80 | 4 | (5.0) | NT | – | NT | – | NT | – | |
| Meat/organ | Carcass | 827 | 55 | (6.7) | 37 | (67.3) | 16 | (29.1) | 2 | (3.6) | |
| Meat/organ | Gallbladder | 100 | 12 | (12.0) | 0 | (0.0) | 12 | (100) | 0 | (0.0) | |
| Meat/organ | Liver | 30 | 8 | (26.7) | 5 | (62.5) | 3 | (37.5) | 0 | (0.0) | |
| Meat/organ | Meat | 521 | 25 | (4.8) | 21 | (84.0) | 4 | (16.0) | 0 | (0.0) | |
| Meat/organ | Tripe | 30 | 1 | (3.3) | NT | – | NT | – | NT | – | |
| TOTAL | 6545 | 838 | (12.8) | 575 | (68.0) | 222 | (26.3) | 48 | (5.7) | ||
| Goat | Gut | Faeces/Rectal swab | 2372 | 472 | (19.9) | 283 | (59.0) | 149 | (31.0) | 48 | (10.0) |
| Meat/organ | Carcass | 180 | 17 | (9.4) | 12 | (70.6) | 5 | (29.4) | 0 | (0.0) | |
| Meat/organ | Meat | 269 | 80 | (29.7) | 17 | (20.7) | 65 | (79.3) | 0 | (0.0) | |
| Meat/organ | Stomachs | 86 | 32 | (91.3) | 7 | (21.9) | 25 | (78.1) | 0 | (0.0) | |
| TOTAL | 2907 | 601 | (20.7) | 319 | (53.1) | 244 | (40.6) | 48 | (8.0) | ||
| Pigs | Gut | Caeca/Intestine | 454 | 59 | (13.0) | 36 | (61.0) | 23 | (39.0) | 0 | (0.0) |
| Gut | Faeces/Rectal swab | 1408 | 467 | (33.2) | 83 | (17.8) | 354 | (76.1) | 28 | (6.0) | |
| Meat/organ | Carcass | 66 | 7 | (10.6) | 6 | (85.7) | 1 | (14.3) | 0 | (0.0) | |
| Meat/organ | Meat | 47 | 4 | (8.5) | 1 | (25.0) | 2 | (50.0) | 1 | (25.0) | |
| TOTAL | 1975 | 537 | (27.2) | 126 | (23.6) | 380 | (71.0) | 29 | (5.4) | ||
| Poultry | Gut | Caeca | 1902 | 759 | (39.9) | 442 | (71.9) | 161 | (26.2) | 12 | (2.0) |
| Gut | Faeces/Cloaca swab | 5548 | 2457 | (44.3) | 1893 | (82.6) | 276 | (12.0) | 122 | (5.3) | |
| Meat/organ | Carcass | 653 | 335 | (51.3) | 130 | (55.3) | 97 | (41.3) | 8 | (3.4) | |
| Meat/organ | Gallbladder or bile | 65 | 3 | (4.6) | 3 | (100) | 0 | (0.0) | 0 | (0.0) | |
| Meat/organ | Giblet | 37 | 15 | (40.5) | 5 | (100) | 0 | (0.0) | 0 | (0.0) | |
| Meat/organ | Gizzard | 250 | 43 | (17.2) | 43 | (100) | 0 | (0.0) | 0 | (0.0) | |
| Meat/organ | Heart | 250 | 11 | (4.4) | 11 | (100) | 0 | (0.0) | 0 | (0.0) | |
| Meat/organ | Kidney | 25 | 2 | (8.0) | 2 | (100) | 0 | (0.0) | 0 | (0.0) | |
| Meat/organ | Liver | 300 | 75 | (25.0) | 68 | (100) | 0 | (0.0) | 0 | (0.0) | |
| Meat/organ | Meat | 1193 | 257 | (21.5) | 132 | (71.4) | 10 | (5.4) | 43 | (23.2) | |
| Meat/organ | Spleen | 200 | 17 | (8.5) | 17 | (100) | 0 | (0.0) | 0 | (0.0) | |
| External | Skin | 1405 | 948 | (67.5) | 346 | (47.7) | 341 | (47.0) | 38 | (5.2) | |
| TOTAL | 11,828 | 4922 | (41.6) | 3092 | (73.6) | 885 | (21.1) | 223 | (5.3) | ||
| Sheep | Gut | Faeces/Rectal swab | 1430 | 248 | (17.3) | 148 | (59.7) | 87 | (35.1) | 13 | (5.2) |
| Gut | Intestinal contents | 300 | 17 | (5.7) | 11 | (64.7) | 4 | (23.5) | 2 | (11.8) | |
| Meat/organ | Carcass | 288 | 38 | (13.2) | 31 | (81.6) | 7 | (18.4) | 0 | (0.0) | |
| Meat/organ | Gallbladder | 250 | 10 | (4.0) | 8 | (80.0) | 1 | (10.0) | 1 | (10.0) | |
| Meat/organ | Meat | 114 | 12 | (10.5) | 10 | (83.3) | 2 | (16.7) | 0 | (0.0) | |
| TOTAL | 2382 | 325 | (13.6) | 208 | (64.0) | 101 | (31.1) | 16 | (4.9) | ||
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Where “Other” Campylobacter species include: C. faecalis, C. fetus, C. hyointesinalis, C. lari, C. sputorum, C. upsaliensis.