Isolation of Arcobacter spp from poultry carcasses, in Brazil

Autor: Sérgio José de Oliveira, Hamilton Luiz de Souza Moraes, Beatris Sonntag Kuchenbecker, Nilo Ikuta, Vagner Lunge, André Fonseca, José Rafael Coiro
Jazyk: English<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2001
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Zdroj: Ciência Rural, Vol 31, Iss 4, Pp 639-643 (2001)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1678-4596
0103-8478
DOI: 10.1590/S0103-84782001000400013
Popis: Fourty eight isolates of Arcobacter spp were obtained from 37 poultry carcasses, from abattoir, among 80 carcasses examined. Attempts for culturing were made from the skin and muscle, resulting on 25 positive cultures from muscle and 23 from skin. Classification was achieved by phenotypic characterization and PCR and multiplex PCR, resulting 41 samples of Arcobacter butzleri and 07 Arcobacter sp. This is the first report on the occurrence of Arcobacter in animal carcasses in Brazil.
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