Campylobacter epidemiology in broiler production in Eastern Spain
- Autores: Sofía Ingresa Capaccioni
- Directores de la Tesis: Clara Marín Orenga (dir. tes.), Santiago Vega García (codir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universidad CEU - Cardenal Herrera ( España ) en 2017
- Idioma: inglés
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Lucas José Domínguez Rodríguez (presid.), Manuela Castilho Monteiro de Oliveira (secret.), Manuel Laínez Andrés (voc.)
- Materias:
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- Tesis en acceso abierto en: Repositorio Institucional CEU
- Resumen
Campylobacter epidemiology in broiler production in Eastern Spain.
Sofia Ingresa Capaccioni Campylobacter is the most common bacterial cause of human gastrointestinal disease in most developed countries. It is generally accepted that handling or consuming contaminated poultry meat is the commonest source of foodborne Campylobacter infections in humans. Although poultry are considered the major reservoir for this human pathogen, the ecology of Campylobacter in chicken flocks is poorly understood, hampering the design of effective intervention strategies at the pre-harvest stage. However, assessing the effectiveness of any potential intervention at farm level requires monitoring of the Campylobacter status of broiler flocks using appropriately sampling methods. The development of molecular methods constitutes an especially important breakthrough in reducing the time required and specific for the identification of Campylobacter spp. combined with a lower detection limit.
Therefore, the aims of this work were (i) to investigate the epidemiology of Campylobacter in broiler production system of the Valencia Region, and the possibility of vertical transmission, (ii) to assess the influence of the sample type across the rearing period for the detection of Campylobacter spp. at farm level, and (iii) to investigate the occurrence of Campylobacter in day-old chicks using molecular methods to examine vertical transmission in poultry production.
