| chicken as potential contamination source of campylobacter lari in iquitos, peru. | in order to know the importance of chicken as natural reservoir of campylobacter lari in iquitos, peru; samples were obtained by cloacal swabs from 200 chickens and immediately placed into a semisolid enrichment medium; these were streaked on modified skirrow agar. the organism was isolated from 21 (10.5%) samples, corresponding 58.8% to biovar i and 41.2% to biovar ii (lior scheme). the results provide evidence that chicken appear to be prominent reservoirs of campylobacter lari in iquitos. | 1994 | 7569622 |