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ABSTRACT

Poultry birds serve an important reservoir of listeric infection which through food chain reaches to human population and leads to severe signs and symptoms of listeriosis in man especially in immunocompromized individuals, children and pregnant ladies. Owing to its economic considerations and fatalities in human and animal populations the present study aims at identifying listeric infection in poultry meat and caecal samples. In this study, a total of 80 samples comprising 58 meat samples and 22 caecal samples were collected from Bareilly in the state of Uttar Pradesh India. Isolation of Listeria species was attempted as per USDA-FSIS method. All samples were enriched by two step enrichment procedure viz., UVM-I, followed by UVM-II and then plating onto selective medium i.e., PALCAM agar. On microbiological analysis, biochemical characterization and through commercial LAT assay, 4 Listeria isolates were recovered from poultry samples with an overall prevalence of 5%.

Keywords: Bareilly, Listeria, Poultry, PALCAM