title: PRESENCE OF CRYPTOCOCCUS SPECIES IN DOMESTIC CHICKEN (GALLUS GALLUS) DROPPINGS AND THE POSSIBLE RISK IT POSED TO HUMANS IN KABIGERIET VILLAGE, NAKURU COUNTY, KENYA.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To isolate and identify Cryptococcus from domestic Chicken dropping.
  
  
  METHODS
  cross sectional study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Kabigeriet village, Olenguorone Division, Nakuru county, approximately 282 km from Nairobi, Kenya.
  
  
  METHODS
  Sixty four domestic chicken droppings were sampled in thirty two homesteads after obtaining the farmers consent.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Two species of Cryptococcus were isolated.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Domestic chicken (Gallus gallus) harbor Pathogenic Cryptococcus in their dropping and their close proximity to human habitation poses a risk of AIDS to immunocompromised persons.
authors: Department of Plant and Microbial Sciences, kenyatta University, P. O. Box 43844, Nairobi, Kenya.
authors: E K
authors: EK
authors: Kemoi
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Okemo
authors: C C
authors: CC
authors: Bii
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002645:Chickens; D003453:Cryptococcosis / Q000209:etiology*; D003454:Cryptococcus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D007630:Kenya; D012307:Risk Factors