Parallel Sequencing Reveals Campylobacter spp. in Commercial Meat Chickens Less than 8 Days Old.

ABSTRACT: Campylobacter from contaminated poultry meat is a major source of human gastroenteritis worldwide. To date, attempts to control this zoonotic infection with on-farm biosecurity measures have been inconsistent in outcome. A cornerstone of these efforts has been the detection of chicken infection with microbiological culture, where Campylobacter is generally not detectable until birds are at least 21 days old. Using parallel sequence-based bacterial 16S profiling analysis and targeted sequencing of the porA gene, Campylobacter was identified at very low levels in all commercial flocks at less than 8 days old that were tested from the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and France. These young chicks exhibited a much greater diversity of porA types than older birds testing positive for

SUBMITTER: Colles FM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8579978 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature