High Campylobacter diversity in retail chicken: epidemiologically important strains may be missed with current sampling methods.

ABSTRACT: Campylobacter spp. are leading bacterial gastroenteritis pathogens. Infections are largely underreported, and the burden of outbreaks may be underestimated. Current strategies of testing as few as one isolate per sample can affect attribution of cases to epidemiologically important sources with high Campylobacter diversity, such as chicken meat. Multiple culture method combinations were utilized to recover and sequence Campylobacter from 45 retail chicken samples purchased across Norwich, UK, selecting up to 48 isolates per sample. Simulations based on resampling were used to assess the impact of Campylobacter sequence type (ST) diversity on outbreak detection. Campylobacter was recovered from 39 samples (87%), although only one sample was positive throug

SUBMITTER: Dziegiel AH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11736455 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature