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With the aim of detecting Campylobacter spp in benefited chickens and their viscera expended in the Girardot municipality, of the Aragua state, Venezuela, through a descriptive and retrospective investigation, a total of 48 chickens and their viscera were taken through a non-probability sample divided into three (03) lots, which were evaluated by means of a rapid plaque test, finding: Campylobacter spp. in lot (01) in 100% for chickens and viscera, in lot (02), 68.75% in chickens and 50% in viscera, and in lot (03) 75% in chickens and 56.5% in viscera; showing an overall positivity of 81.25% for whole chickens and 68.50% for viscera. The number of colony forming units (CFU), higher than the infecting dose for individual’s ≥ 500 CFU, was obtained in 43.75% of the chickens and 25% of the viscera of the first lot; in 12.5% of chickens and entrails from the second lot, and in 6.25% in chickens and entrails from the third lot. In determining the degree of correlation between CFUs in chickens and viscera, an association (P <0.005) was observed between these variables.
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