TABLE 3.
Number and percentage of different species of Campylobacter isolated from chicken meat samples obtained from broilers raised in conventional or NAEa systems and farm samples obtained from NAE houses
| Campylobacter spp. | No. of positive isolates (%) in: |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail conventional samples (n = 36) | Retail NAE samples (n = 22) | Farm samples (n = 47) | Total incidence (n = 105) | |
| C. jejuni | 22 (61.1) | 20 (90.9) | 40 (85.1) | 82 (78.1) |
| C. lari | 4 (11.1) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (6.4) | 7 (6.7) |
| C. volucris | 2 (5.6) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (1.9) |
| Otherb | 8 (22.2) | 2 (9.1) | 4 (8.5) | 14 (13.3) |
a
NAE, no-antibiotics-ever-raised chicken.
b
Campylobacter strains unidentified while performing the NCBI BLAST.