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Abstract
Campylobacters are wide spread in the animal kingdom, both as pathogenic and commensal organisms. With the development of practical methods for isolation of enteropathogenic campylobacters from faeces, this organism has been gaining recognition as enteric pathogen in man. an important It is mainly a zoonosis with many possible routes of infection, al though the infection can be transmi tted from person to person. Pet owners, their families and visitors are known to be a group of special risk to zoonosis, therefore, this study was aiming at the determination of the pre valence of the enteropathogenic campy~obacters in some healthy pet animals and birds in Alexandria houses. A total of 261 rectal swabs from healthy pet animals (190) dogs and (71) cats and 242 coloacal swabs from healthy ornamental birds (113) Australian birds (90) pigeons and (39) canary bi rds in different localities of Alexandria were collected. All swabs were inoculated into Cary-Blair transport media and transported to the laboratory in an ice box; they were kept in the refregirator till examined. All specimens were streaked on Blaser I s selective media, incubated at. 43°C for 48 hours in a microaero philic condition by using the gas generating kits for campylobacters. The suspected Campylobacter coloni’es were stained by the Gram method using 0.3 carbol’ fuchsin as a counter stain and examined for their oxidase and catalase produc tion. Complete identification strains of the’ isolated was performed by the following: Nalidixic acid hydrolysis, resistance, Hippurate giycine T.T.C. H2S . production, 3.5 NaCI, . I and tolerance tests.