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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
A study was conducted to assess the prevalence of thermophilic Campylobacter jejuni in retail chicken meat sold in meat stalls at Chennai Corporation. For this, samples collected from randomly selected five different zones of Chennai were screened for presence of Campylobacter jejuni by conventional culture method and further confirmed by Polymerase Chain Reaction. The results of prevalence study showed that 38. 67% (58/150) of the chicken carcasses examined were positive for Campylobacter jejuni. Chicken meat samples from Ambattur zone had highest percentage (63. 33%) of positive samples closely followed by Anna Nagar (56. 67%). Royapuram zone had lowest percentage (13. 33%) of positive samples. Percentage of positive samples from Thiruvottriyur and Adyar zones were 43. 33% and 16. 67%, respectively.