Caecal Microbiota of Experimentally Campylobacter jejuni-Infected Chickens at Different Ages.

ABSTRACT: Campylobacter jejuni is the most common bacterial cause of foodborne zoonosis in the European Union. Infections are often linked to the consumption and handling of poultry meat. The aim of the present study was to investigate the caecal microbiota of birds infected with C. jejuni at different ages. Therefore, a total of 180 birds of the laying hybrid Lohmann Brown-Classic were housed in 12 subgroups of 15 animals each in three performed repetitions. Three birds per subgroup were experimentally infected with C. jejuni at an age of about 21 days and about 78 days (4.46 ± 0.35 log₁₀ CFU/bird). Twenty-one days after experimental infection, microbiome studies were performed on 72 caecal samples of dissected birds (three primary infected and three further birds/su

SUBMITTER: Hankel J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6796544 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature