Research Article
Incidence of Listeria spp. in Dairy Cows Feed and Raw Milk in Latvia
Table 2
Share of Listeria spp. and Listeria monocytogenes in feed depending of type of farm and season.
| Season | Organic farming | Conventional farming | Number of samples | Listeria spp., (%) | L. monocytogenes, (%) | Number of samples | Listeria spp., (%) | L. monocytogenes, (%) |
| Winter | 19 | 4 (7.4) | 10 (18.5) | 30 | 2 (2.6) | 8 (10.5) | Spring | 14 | 2 (3.7) | 2 (3.7) | 14 | 0 | 0 | Summer | 6 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | Autumn | 15 | 2 (3.7) | 4 (7.4) | 18 | 2 (2.6) | 2 (2.6) | Total | 54 | 8 (14.8) | 16 (29.6) | 76 | 4 (5.2) | 10 (13.1) |
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