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Table 5 Prevalence of Campylobacter spp. by state and processing plant. The processing plants from GA and MS had the highest prevalence ( P ā€‰ā€‰<ā€‰0.05)

From: Prevalence of Campylobacter spp. in skinless, boneless retail broiler meat from 2005 through 2011 in Alabama, USA

State

Processing plant (Number of samples)a

Positive (%)

GA

B (121)

47.9

Ā 

I (29)

48.3

Ā 

J (53)

58.5

Ā 

R (51)

43.1

MS

D (10)

44.4

Ā 

O (193)

49.5

NC

E (27)

40.7

Ā 

H (116)

25.0

Ā 

N (72)

36.1

TN

L (24)

33.3

TX

Q (23)

30.4

VA

M (17)

11.8

  1. a Plants from GA and MSā€‰=ā€‰456 samples; Plants from NC, TN, TX and VAā€‰=ā€‰279 samples. Plants A, C, F, G, K and P each represented less than 10 samples.