A review and future potential approach for Campylobacter control in retail poultry meats

Campylobacteriosis is considered the most frequent zoonosis in humans, and the handling and/or consumption of poultry meat are considered the main source for human infection. Moreover, largely owing to the recent food authority ban on the use of antibiotic growth promoters in animal feed, it is now very important to look for new effective strategies to reduce the incidence of these bacteria in the host. Chicken intestines, and also the intestines of other animals, are the only sites where Campylobacter proliferates in meat. Therefore, the development of a novel approach for controlling Campylobacter could be a very valuable alternative strategy in the fight to eliminate these bacteria from the poultry meat chain.