Microbiological Safety of Leafy Vegetables Produced at Houeyiho and Sèmè-Kpodji Vegetable Farms in Southern Benin: Risk Factors for Campylobacter spp.

Table 4

Contamination rate of two leafy vegetable species sampled.

Vegetable farms	Type of garden	Number of samples contaminated by Campylobacter spp. according to each leafy vegetables				Contamination rate of leafy vegetables by type of gardens	Contamination rate of leafy vegetables by farms	Total
		Solanum macrocarpon		Lactuca sativa capitata
Sèmè-Kpodji	Manure-gardens	3	(25%)	9	(75%)	12 (18.75%)	17 (13.28%)	128
	NPK-gardens	2	(40%)	3	(60%)	5 (7.81%)
Houeyiho	Manure-garden	4	(33.33%)	8	(66.67%)	12 (25%)	18 (18.75%)	96
	NPK-garden	3	(50%)	3	(50%)	6 (12.50%)
Total		12/112	(10.71%)	23/112	(20.54%)