Chicken as potential contamination source of Campylobacter lari in Iquitos, Peru

A Tresierra-Ayala; M E Bendayan; A Bernuy; G Pereyra; H Fernandez

doi:10.1590/s0036-46651994000600004

Chicken as potential contamination source of Campylobacter lari in Iquitos, Peru

Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo. Nov-Dec 1994;36(6):497-9. doi: 10.1590/s0036-46651994000600004.

Authors

A Tresierra-Ayala¹, M E Bendayan, A Bernuy, G Pereyra, H Fernandez

Affiliation

¹ Department of Microbiology, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana, Iquitos, Peru.

PMID: 7569622
DOI: 10.1590/s0036-46651994000600004

Abstract

In order to know the importance of chicken as natural reservoir of Campylobacter lari in Iquitos, Peru; samples were obtained by cloacal swabs from 200 chickens and immediately placed into a semisolid enrichment medium; these were streaked on modified Skirrow Agar. The organism was isolated from 21 (10.5%) samples, corresponding 58.8% to biovar I and 41.2% to biovar II (Lior scheme). The results provide evidence that chicken appear to be prominent reservoirs of Campylobacter lari in Iquitos.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Campylobacter / isolation & purification*
Chickens / microbiology*
Disease Reservoirs*
Intestines / microbiology
Peru