Virulence factors and antimicrobial resistance profiles of Campylobacter isolates recovered from consecutively reused broiler litter.

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Campylobacter is a leading cause of foodborne illness in the United States due to consumption of contaminated or mishandled food products, often associated with chicken meat. Campylobacter is common in the microbiota of avian and mammalian gut; however, acquisition of antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) and virulence factors (VFs) may result in strains that pose significant threat to public health. Although there are studies investigating the genetic diversity of Campylobacter strains isolated from post-harvest chicken samples, there are limited data on the genome characteristics of isolates recovered from preharvest broiler production. Here, we show that Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli differ in their carriage of antimicr

SUBMITTER: Woyda R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10871742 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature