Village-Indigenous Chicken Bacterial Carriage after the Heavy Rains of 2018, Kenya: Indicator on Environmental Contamination with Pathogenic/Zoonotic Bacteria
Table 2
Prevalence of bacteria isolated from Kariokor, Burma, and Kangemi slaughterhouses and their chi square values.
Bacteria isolated
Number of the isolates (% of total); n = 120 (%)
Kariokor (% of respective total); n = 40 (%)
Burma (% of respective total); n = 40 (%)
Kangemi (% of respective total); n = 40 (%)
values
χ2
Escherichia coli
103 (85.8)
34 (85)
34 (85)
35 (87.5)
0.8
0.46NS
Proteus spp
29 (24.2)
0 (0)
20 (50)
9 (22.5)
≤0.001
23.23
Staphylococcus aureus
23 (19.2)
10 (25)
4 (10)
9 (22.5)
0.19
3.34NS
Other Staphylococcus spp
43 (35.8)
22 (55)
5(12.5)
16 (40)
≤0.001
23.42
Streptococcus agalactiae
2 (1.7)
0 (0)
1 (2.5)
1 (2.5)
0.60
1.03NS
Other Streptococcus spp
50 (41.7)
14 (35)
21 (52.5)
15 (37.5)
0.17
4.05NS
Listeria monocytogenes
8 (6.7)
3 (7.5)
1 (2.5)
4 (10)
0.40
1.88NS
Other Listeria spp
38 (31.7)
5 (12.5)
12 (30)
21 (52.5)
0.001
14.7
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
2 (1.66)
0 (0)
1 (2.5)
1 (2.5)
0.60
1.02NS
Streptobacillus spp
1 (0.83)
1 (2.5)
0 (0)
0 (0)
0.37
2NS
Bacillus spp
50 (41.66)
10 (25)
26 (65)
14 (35)
≤0.001
19.38
Klebsiella spp
9 (7.5)
0 (0)
2 (5)
7 (17.5)
0.009
9.37
Campylobacter spp
3 (2.5)
0 (0)
1 (2.5)
2 (5)
0.36
2.051NS
NS means no significant difference of isolation rates between the markets; means that there is significant difference, with respect to isolation rates, among the markets, at value of 0.05.
