Open AccessCarrier status for <I>Listeria monocytogenes</I> and other <I>Listeria</I> species in free range farm and market healthy indigenous chickens and ducks
Author(s) -
L W Njagi,
P.G. Mbuthia,
L. C. Bebora,
P.N. Nyaga,
U Minga,
J. A Olsen
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
east african medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.102
H-Index - 40
ISSN - 0012-835X
DOI - 10.4314/eamj.v81i10.9236
Subject(s) - listeria , listeria monocytogenes , veterinary medicine , biology , medicine , bacteria , genetics
Listeria organisms are documented to be zoonotic; one of the sources of infection is the domestic fowl where it could occur as in apparent infection. The carriage of Listeria monocytogenes and other Listeria in indigenous birds has not been documented in Kenya.