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A Survey of Campylobacter and Other Bacterial Contaminants of Pre-market Chicken and Retail Poultry and Meats, King County, Washington.

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      KING County (Wash.); WASHINGTON (State)
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      Abstract: As part of a larger study to determine the flow of Campylobacter and Salmonella from food animals to humans during 1982-83, 1,936 swabs were collected for bacteriologic study from pre-market chickens, retail poultry, and other retail meats as well as from equipment and work surfaces used to process such foods. Of the 297 samples collected in a poultry processing plant, 56.6 per ¢ were positive for Campylobacter jejuni/coli (CJC), as were 23.1 per ¢ of the 862 retail chicken, and 17.2 per ¢ of the 29 retail game hen samples. CJC was found infrequently in retail turkey, pork, and beef samples. Contamination of retail and pre-market chicken with CJC appeared to increase as the week progressed, and in pre-market chicken, later in the day. < 5 per ¢ of the retail samples of poultry, beef, and pork were found to contain Yersinia or Salmonella. However, Salmonella was cultured from 14.8 per ¢ of the swabs taken from the processing plant with 68 per ¢ of 44 Salmonellas being isolated concurrently with CJC. Tetracycline resistance which was plasmid-mediated was the most common antibiotic resistance observed, and was carried by 23.8 per ¢ of all CJC isolates. Overall, 38.8 per ¢ of all CJC isolates were resistant to ampicillin, erythromycin, streptomycin, or tetracycline, either singly or in combination. (Am J Public Health 1986; 76:401-406.) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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