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An average of 25��4?kg per capita of chicken meat is consumed annually in Grenada (Anon. 2008). Information concerning http://www.selleckchem.com/products/Rapamycin.html human campylobacteriosis in Grenada is not readily available. Statistics have revealed that gastroenteritis and diarrhoea are among the leading causes of infant mortality between 1992 and 1996. In these years, all causes of gastroenteritis increased by 60% in children http://www.selleckchem.com/products/MG132.html level, using culture media and biochemical tests (Hariharan et?al. 2009). The discrepancies between the results from biochemical tests and the results from mPCR assays, the degree of discrimination of flaA-RFLP, PFGE and MLST and the combination of these techniques are discussed. Fifty-six Campylobacter isolates collected during processing from the caeca of broiler and layers were submitted to the Department of Poultry Science, Auburn University for http://www.selleck.cn/products/Bleomycin-sulfate.html DNA identification and characterization. These samples were collected from five farms and included 43 strains isolated from broilers and 13 strains isolated from layers. These samples were collected at each farm during processing (processing is performed manually in Grenada) on eight different days during the period of August 2006 to January 2007. The caeca were placed in sterile plastic bags and transported to the laboratory on ice for processing the same day. The identification of these isolates using biochemical tests have been described elsewhere (Hariharan et?al. 2009). Briefly, identification of the Campylobacter strains was performed as follows: freshly grown cultures were subjected to catalase, oxidase (BBL, Becton, Dickinson and Co., Sparks, MD, USA), hippurate (Remel, Lenexa, KS, USA) and latex agglutination tests (JCL, Panbio, Columbia, MD, USA). All isolates were also tested for their susceptibility to nalidixic acid (30?��g disc) and cephalothin (30?��g disc) on Mueller�CHinton agar supplemented with 5% sheep blood. All isolates were positive with the latex agglutination test. Based on biochemical tests, hippurate-positive isolates were identified as Camp.?jejuni, while nalidixic acid-susceptible, hippurate-negative isolates were identified as Camp.?coli, and nalidixic acid-resistant, hippurate-negative isolates were identified as Campylobacter lari (Hariharan et?al. 2009).