Chicken as potential contamination source of Campylocacter lari in Iquitos, Peru Frangos como fonte potencial de contaminação por Campylobacter lari em Iquitos, Peru

In order to know the importance of chicken as natural reservoir of Campylobacter lari in Iquitos, Peru; samples were obtained by cloacal swabs from 200 chickens and immediately placed into a semisolid enrichment medium; these were streaked on modified Skirrow Agar. The organism was isolated from 21...

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Main Authors: Alvaro Tresierra-Ayala, Maria Elena Bendayan, Alfonso Bernuy, Gustavo Pereyra, Heriberto Fernandez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 1994-12-01
Series:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46651994000600004