Biotypes and Serogroups of Poultry Strains of Arcobacter Sp. Isolated in France

Prevalence of Arcobacter spp. on chicken meat at retail markets and in farm chickens in Selangor, Malaysia

“…Studies for other countries also reported A. butzleri as the predominant species isolated from poultry products at rates of up to 100%; for instance, A. butzleri was isolated from 79.1% of broiler carcasses at a commercial poultry plant in the US (Son et al, 2006), 48% and 100% of chicken meat from Japan and Thailand, respectively (Morita et al, 2004), 95% of chilled fresh chicken carcasses in Turkey (Atabay, Aydin, Houf, Sahin, & Vandamme, 2003), 19% of retail chicken carcasses in the US (Wesley & Baetz, 1999), 100% of poultry carcasses examined in the UK , 81% of poultry carcasses in France (Marinescu, Collignon, Squinazi, Woodward, & Lior, 1996) and 24% of retail chicken meat in the Netherlands (De Boer & Beumer, 1999). Furthermore, A. butzleri was detected in 53% of retail chicken in Spain using a combined PCR-culture technique (Gonzalez, Garcia, Antolin, Hernandez, & Martin, 2000) and in 71% of poultry meat in Belgium using an m-PCR assay after enrichment (Houf et al, 2000).…”

Prevalence of Arcobacter species in market-weight commercial turkeys

“…butzleri and A. cryaerophilus are found on poultry carcasses Houf et al 2002;Scullion et al 2006), suggesting that consumption of contaminated products is a risk factor for human infection. The serogroup identity of A. butzleri isolates from poultry and clinical cases of diarrhoeal illness suggested that poultry are possible reservoir of infection (Marinescu et al 1996). Poultry, including up to 97% of chicken carcasses (Atabay et al 2003;DeBoer et al 1996;Kabeya et al 2003;Lammerding et al 1996), retail products (Scullion et al 2006), and up to 80% of ground poultry (Manke et al 1998;Rivas et al 2004;Scullion et al 2004) are often contaminated with Arcobacter spp., primarily A. butzleri.…”

Prevalence and Genetic Variability of Arcobacter Species in Mechanically Separated Turkey

“…In France, A. butzleri was recovered from 81 % of poultry carcasses examined (n = 201). Nearly half of the poultry isolates in that study were of serogroup 1 (20). In a survey of poultry products in Canada, A. butzleri was recovered from 97% (121 of 125) of poultry carcasses obtained from five different processing plants.…”

“…The clinical symptoms of A. butzleri suggest that it is a human pathogen (14,15). A. butzleri organisms have also been isolated from water (6,10,13), poultry (2,5,10,16,20), and pork (4,5).…”