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ArticlePoultry science2025

Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli in broiler chicken livers: High prevalence and surface contamination, but low load in inner tissue.

Alicia Manzanares-Pedrosa, Joanna Szumilas, Teresa Ayats, Miquel Nofrarías, Marta Cerdà-Cuéllar

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Article in Poultry science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Culture-Based Detection ofFoods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  3. Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Alicia Manzanares-PedrosaUnitat mixta d'Investigació IRTA-UAB en Sanitat Animal, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, 08193 Catalonia. Spain; IRTA, Programa de Sanitat Animal. Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, 08193 Catalonia. Spain.
Joanna SzumilasUnitat mixta d'Investigació IRTA-UAB en Sanitat Animal, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, 08193 Catalonia. Spain; IRTA, Programa de Sanitat Animal. Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, 08193 Catalonia. Spain.
Teresa AyatsUnitat mixta d'Investigació IRTA-UAB en Sanitat Animal, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, 08193 Catalonia. Spain; IRTA, Programa de Sanitat Animal. Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, 08193 Catalonia. Spain.
Miquel NofraríasUnitat mixta d'Investigació IRTA-UAB en Sanitat Animal, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, 08193 Catalonia. Spain; IRTA, Programa de Sanitat Animal. Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, 08193 Catalonia. Spain.
Marta Cerdà-CuéllarUnitat mixta d'Investigació IRTA-UAB en Sanitat Animal, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, 08193 Catalonia. Spain; IRTA, Programa de Sanitat Animal. Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, 08193 Catalonia. Spain. Electronic address: marta.cerda@irta.cat.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thermophilic Campylobacter spp. are the main cause of gastrointestinal illness in humans through contaminated food. Poultry and poultry products are the main sources of Campylobacter infection. Epidemiological data on Campylobacter prevalence and load in broiler livers remain limited and its presence in this offal may be associated with the caecal load. Hence, this study aimed to determine the prevalence and levels of Campylobacter in chicken livers, both from the surface and inner tissue, compared with that of caeca, by sampling 56 flocks from two slaughterhouses in Spain. Three carcasses per flock were randomly collected during evisceration (n = 168 livers and caecal contents). Overall Campylobacter prevalence was 57.1 % in caecal samples, 77.9 % in surface liver samples and 35.7 % in the inner tissue liver. C. jejuni was the most common species in all sample types and coinfections with C. coli were more prevalent in livers than in the caeca samples. However, there was no relationship between Campylobacter species (C. jejuni, C. coli) and sample type (P > 0.05). The data highlights the role of chicken offal as a potential source of human campylobacteriosis, particularly because of the high Campylobacter load (>10

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Campylobacter coliCampylobacter InfectionsCampylobacter jejuniChickensLiverPoultry DiseasesAnimalsBacterial LoadCecumPrevalenceSpainCaecaCross-contaminationPoultryRFLPTranslocation

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PMID40840289
PMCPMC12396429

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