Prevalence of Campylobacter, Salmonella, and Arcobacter species at slaughter in market age pigs.
A survey was conducted to determine the prevalence of Campylobacter, Salmonella, and Arcobacter species in market age pigs from an integrated swine operation in Texas. Our findings indicate that farms from this commercial operation were heavily contaminated with Campylobacter and Salmonella, that the isolation rates of C. jejuni were higher than predicted, and that there was a low prevalence of Arcobacter.
Harvey
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Food Animal Protection Research Laboratory, USDA, ARS, College Station, Texas 77845, USA.
Anderson
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Young
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Hume
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Genovese
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Ziprin
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Farrington
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Stanker
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Nisbet
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D000818:Animals; D020640:Arcobacter / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D002169:Campylobacter Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D016905:Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D015995:Prevalence; D012481:Salmonella Infections, Animal / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D013552:Swine; D013553:Swine Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology