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Rivista trimestrale di Sanità Pubblica Veterinaria edita dall'Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise "G. Caporale"

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2007 - Volume 43 (1) January-March
   
 
Vincenza Prencipe, Gabriella Parisciani, Paolo Calistri, Christina Michaela Caporale, Giorgio Iannitto, Daniela Morelli, Francesco Pomilio, Daniel Prochowski & Giacomo Migliorati
Thermotolerant Campylobacter in poultry meat marketed in the Abruzzo and Molise regions of Italy: prevalence and contamination levels 167-174
       

Summary
The prevalence and level of contamination of Campylobacter were determined for poultry meat taken from small and large retailers in Abruzzo and Molise. Of a total of 392 samples analysed, 160 (40.8%) revealed low-level thermotolerant Campylobacter contamination (0.3‑9.3 most probable number [MPN]/g), 17 samples (10.6%) showed a contamination level above 9.3 MPN/g and one sample (0.6%) had 110 MPN/g. Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli were isolated from 81.9% and 32.5% of the samples, respectively. More than one species of Campylobacter were isolated from 23.1% of the positive samples.

Keywords
Campylobacter spp., Italy, Poultry, Food safety, Surveillance.

       


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