Drinking water as the source ofCampylobacter coliinfection in grandparent heavy breeders
- Resource Type
- Authors
- M. Aurora Echeita; M Dolores Hurtado-Pizarro; Francisco Javier García-Peña; Iratxe Pérez-Cobo; J.C. Abad-Moreno; D. Pérez-Boto
- Source
- Avian Pathology. 39:483-487
- Subject
- Genotype
animal diseases
Campylobacteriosis
Campylobacter coli
Campylobacter jejuni
Microbiology
Restriction fragment
Cloaca
Food Animals
Water Supply
Campylobacter Infections
medicine
Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis
Animals
Typing
Poultry Diseases
General Immunology and Microbiology
biology
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
Spain
biology.protein
Multilocus sequence typing
Animal Science and Zoology
Water Microbiology
Chickens
Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
Flagellin
Multilocus Sequence Typing
- Language
- ISSN
- 1465-3338
0307-9457
The aim of the present study was the molecular identification of a common source of infection of Campylobacter coli in two grandparent breeder farms. Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli were isolated from well water and cloacal swabs from grandparent chickens. Colonies were genotyped using restriction fragment length polymorphism-flaA gene, pulsed field gel electrophoresis and multi-locus sequence typing. The same genotype of C. coli was found in both farms and in the well from which drinking water was supplied to the farms. The well water was epidemiologically linked as the source of C. coli infection. The molecular identification for epidemiological source-tracking of C. coli in breeder farms could aid in combating the colonization of this pathogen and therefore to reduce their incidence in human campylobacteriosis.