Broiler Campylobacter contamination and human campylobacteriosis in Iceland.

ABSTRACT: To examine whether there is a relationship between the degree of Campylobacter contamination observed in product lots of retail Icelandic broiler chicken carcasses and the incidence of human disease, 1,617 isolates from 327 individual product lots were genetically matched (using the flaA short variable region [SVR[) to 289 isolates from cases of human campylobacteriosis whose onset was within approximately 2 weeks from the date of processing. When there was genetic identity between broiler isolates and human isolates within the appropriate time frame, a retail product lot was classified as implicated in human disease. According to the results of this analysis, there were multiple clusters of human disease linked to the same process lot or lots. Implicated and nonimplicated retail product l

SUBMITTER: Callicott KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2576720 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature