Prevalence, serotype diversity and antibiotic resistance of Salmonella in poultry meat and egg in Turkey: a meta-analysis

Poultry is a well-known reservoir for Salmonella, hence numerous outbreaks associated with poultry meat/products and eggs have been reported to date. This study aimed determine the pooled prevalence, serotype diversity antibiotic resistance profiles of Salmonella in meat egg Turkey. For this purpose, international national electronic databases were searched using appropriate keywords English Turkish. Out 1,818 articles, 41 found eligible inclusion meta-analysis. The prevalence chicken parts, carcass, giblets 24.4% (95% CI:17.8-32.6), 21.9% CI:14.0-32.7), 20.1% CI:10.7-34.6) 4.8% CI:1.7-13.3), respectively. Enteritidis was be most common egg, parts carcass rates 22.4% CI:3.6-69.3), 19.0% CI:3.3-61.6) 5.8% CI:2.2-14.4), highest spp., regardless food type belonged tetracycline (73.9%, 95% CI:51.0-88.5), nalidixic acid (73.4%, CI:48.7-88.9) ampicillin (31.5%, CI:20.7-44.6). high-pooled organism emphasized potential threat public health, also data revealed that use tetracyclines, quinolones penicillin livestock should restricted. results will great construction future epidemiological surveillance spp. presence