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Prevalence of campylobacters in chicken flocks during the summer of 1999 in Finland.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Aug 2002
Perko-Mäkelä P, Hakkinen M, Honkanen-Buzalski T, Hänninen M L
Abstract excerpt
In order to determine the prevalence of campylobacter positive broiler flocks in Finland, every flock from all three major slaughterhouses was studied during the period from 1 May to 30 September 1999. Caecal samples were taken in the slaughterhouses from five birds per flock. A total of 1132 broiler flocks were tested and 33 (2.9%) of those were campylobacter positive. Thirty-one isolates were C. jejuni and two...
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