Control strategies for Campylobacter infection

Campylobacteriosis is the most frequent zoonotic disease in humans worldwide and poultry meat contaminated by Campylobacter jejuni (C. jejuni) is an important source. Broiler chickens are the common natural host for this pathogen and infected birds carry a very high Campylobacter load in their gastrointestinal tract. By: K Ghareeb, WA Awad, M Mohnl, G Schatzmayr and J Böhm Therefore, intervention at the farm level by reducing pathogen colonisation should be taken into consideration in any contr