Campylobacteriosis in poultry

ABSTRACT

Samples were obtained from 80 broilers, 50 layers and 735 hatching eggs at different stages of the embryonic development to determine the incidence of C. jejuni. The results revealed the recovery of C. jejuni from 2.5 and 4% of the tested broilers and layers, respectively. The organism was isolated from 1.8% of the examined hatching eggs. The sensitivity testing of the isolates to 10 antibiotics clarified the sensitivity of the isolates to gentamycin, flumequine, chloramphenicol, tetracyclines and nalidixic acid in descending order and its resistance to oxolonic acid, ampicillin, trimethoprimsulfate and erythromycin