Biodiversity Dynamics of Campylobacter Species in Chicken Tissues in Rural Households in Region Epirus, Greece

The Campylobacter species is considered as an emerging zoonotic threat to public health. C. jejuni and coli are the most studied species, yet a variety of other same genus were found be causative agents diseases. Chicken meat has been described excellent vehicle for transmission some but relevant research conducted in urban populations concerned industrial-grade birds. To investigate abundance prevalence rural free-grazing chicken, quantitative qualitative methods at 37 42 °C employed. possible correlation with certain epidemiological factors (size flock, presence poultry small ruminants, feeding concentrates, or leftovers) also investigated. In total, 242–249 strains (depending on method) belonging following 18 different have isolated: coli, rectus, hominis, helveticus, upsaliensis, jejuni, avium, fetus, hepaticus., lari, sputorum, mucosalis, gracilis, showae, hyointestinalis, concisus, cuniculorum, ureolyticus. size flock ruminants household influential affecting species. biodiversity can attributed environmental, zoonotic, anthropogenic contamination. Rural should educated about importance self-protection measures during their contact necessity cook sufficiently meat.