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. 2005 Aug;71(8):4885-7.
doi: 10.1128/AEM.71.8.4885-4887.2005.

Correlation of Campylobacter bacteriophage with reduced presence of hosts in broiler chicken ceca

R J Atterbury  1 , E Dillon, C Swift, P L Connerton, J A Frost, C E R Dodd, C E D Rees, I F Connerton
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Correlation of Campylobacter bacteriophage with reduced presence of hosts in broiler chicken ceca

R J Atterbury et al. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2005 Aug.

Abstract

Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter-specific bacteriophage were enumerated from broiler chicken ceca selected from 90 United Kingdom flocks (n = 205). C. jejuni counts in the presence of bacteriophage (mean log(10) 5.1 CFU/g) were associated with a significant (P < 0.001) reduction compared to samples with Campylobacter alone (mean log(10) 6.9 CFU/g).

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FIG. 1.
Distribution of C. jejuni enumerated from chicken ceca with (▪) and without (□) phage expressed as a percentage of birds (n = 205) per category (intervals of 1 log10 CFU/g).
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