Table 1.
Prevalence of Campylobacter spp. across the farm to fork continuum.
| Source | Total Samples | No. of Positive Samples | Sample Proportion Among the Positives | Total Isolates |
C. coli (% Per Site) |
C. jejuni (% Per Site) |
Other (% Per Site) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feces | 232 | 195 | 51.50% | 255 | 181 (65.3) | 55 (82.1) | 19 (59.9) |
| Litter | 16 | 16 | 4.20% | ||||
| Slurry | 97 | 44 | 11.60% | ||||
| Truck and crate swabs | 40 | 24 | 6.30% | 24 | 17 (6.1) | 4 (5.9) | 3 (8.8) |
| Carcass swabs | 39 | 31 | 8.20% | 82 | 66 (23.8) | 5 (7.5) | 11 (32.4) |
| Carcass rinsates | 32 | 25 | 6.60% | ||||
| Caeca | 44 | 26 | 6.80% | ||||
| head, body and Thigh | 20 | 17 | 4.40% | 17 | 13 (4.7) | 3 (4.5) | 1 (2.9) |
| TOTAL | 520 | 378 | 378 | 277 | 67 | 34 |