Prevalence of Thermotolerant Campylobacter in Chicken Livers in Turkey and Antimicrobial Resistance among the Campylobacter Strain

This study is carried out to make the comparison between the direct surface swap inoculation methods and deep tissue insertion methods after dipping the livers in alcohol. One hundred and eight campylobacter species have been isolated from 150 direct surface swabs (72%) but 30 campylobacter species have been isolated from 150 samples (20%) kept in 70% ethylalcohol. Eighty-six campylobacter out of 150 (57%) have been identified as C. jejuni and 22 out of 150 (14.6%) as C. coli from the direct swabbed samples. Similarly, 24 out of 150 (16%) Campylobacter have been identified as C. jejuni and 6 out of 150 (4%) as C. coli from the tissue samples kept in 70% ethylalcohol. Susceptibility percentages for gentamicin, erythromycin, amoxycillin ampicilline, tetracycline, streptomycin were 100, 95, 90, 88, 77 and 63, respectively. It has been determined that while Campylobacter was sensitive to most of the antibiotics, it was resistant to penicillin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. It was evaluated that the differences between direct surface swabs (108 positive) and tissue dipped in 70% ethylalcohol (30 positive) might have been resulted from cross contamination.