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Abstract
A total of 175 samples of fresh chicken breast, chicken thigh, chicken liver, chicken gizzard, chicken heart, cloacal skin and neck skin (25, each) were randomly collected from different markets and poultry shops at variable sanitation levels in Zagazig city. All collected samples were immediately transferred in an icebox container, aseptically handled and moved promptly to postgraduate student laboratory, Food Control department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Zagazig University, Egypt. The bacteriological examination was applied for enumeration and isolation Enterococcus species.
Incidence and count of Enterococcus species:
The enterococci were detected in chicken samples within different percentages ranged from 16% (4/25) in chicken heart to 36% (9/25) in cloacal skin and overall percentage was 24.6% (43/175). The descending occurrence arranged cloacal skin > neck skin > gizzard and thigh > liver and breast > heart.
The counts of enterococci were ranged from 2.12 to 5.15, 3.19 to 5.64, 3.54 to 5.95, 3.68 to 6.32, 3.11 to 6.26,
4.82 to 6.3 and 3.24 to 6.7 with mean values 3.0±0.37, 3.47±0.48, 4.05±0.38, 4.15±0.41, 3.72±0.54, 5.03±0.13 and 4.8±0.25 log 10 CFU/g in examined chicken breast, thigh, liver, gizzard, heart, cloacal skin and neck skin, respectively.