Seasonal Prevalence and Molecular Identification of Thermophilic Campylobacter from Chicken, Cattle, and Respective Drinking Water in Kajiado County, Kenya

Table 5

Molecular typing of thermophilic Campylobacter species across sample types.

Sample type	Number analysed by PCR	PCR positive (N)	Species distribution of Campylobacter isolates
			C. jejuni		C. coli		OTCs
			%	95% CI	%	95% CI	%	95% CI
Cattle faeces	100	82	51.2%	40.4–62.0	19.5%	10.9–28.1	29.3%	19.4–39.2
Chicken cloacal swabs	91	63	66.7%	55.1–78.3	14.3%	5.7–22.9	19.0%	9.3–28.7
Drinking/trough water	22	17	35.3%	12.6–58.0	23.5%	3.3–43.7	41.2%	17.8–64.6
Total	213	162	55.6%	47.9–63.3	17.9%	12.0–23.8	26.5%	19.7–33.3

OTCs: other thermophilic Campylobacter spp. that were not identified; 95% CI: 95% confidence intervals for the proportions.