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FOOD BORNE FUNGI IN SPARROWS

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Last updated: 23 Dec 2024

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Food safety / meat quality

Abstract

In Egypt, sparrows are consumed in some occasions as special fests as food. They are firstly half cooked and grilled in plant oils and salad hot is sandwiches or in bags. People in public squares and districts buy these grilled sparrows and consumption is always on the street as a cheap source of protein in- stead of grilled poultry. In some districts there are special shops specialized in grilling wild birds as sparrows. These sparrows are hunted from the costal areas and other provinces as Fayoum. Nouman et al. (1980) examined a total number of 91 immigrating birds hunted from the north costal area and found that the most common mould genus was Aspergillus (73 from total number of 95) and the most common type of Aspergillus was A. niger (32), other types were A. candidus (47), A. fumigatus (10), A flavus (9), and A. ochraceus, A. nidulans, A. glaucus, A. flavipes and A. terreus were one for each. Other moulds were also isolated as Rhizopus species (12), Penicillium species (5), Mucor species (4), and Absidia (1). They found that the moulds and yeasts were isolated from 91% of the examined samples. The present work aimed to examine raw sparrows used for human consumption mycologically and to found the moulds encountered by these birds.

DOI

10.21608/vmjg.1991.379172

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N.A.

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Yassien

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Faculty of Vet. Med. Cairo Univ. Giza, Egypt

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First Name

A.M.

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Darwish

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Faculty of Vet. Med. Cairo Univ. Giza, Egypt

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First Name

A.M.

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El-Sherif

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Faculty of Vet. Med. Cairo Univ. Giza, Egypt

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First Name

E.

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El-Daly

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Faculty of Vet. Med. Zagazig University

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Volume

39

Article Issue

2

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50227

Issue Date

1991-04-01

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2024-09-10

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1991-04-01

Page Start

201

Page End

207

Print ISSN

1110-1423

Online ISSN

2537-1045

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379,172

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Publication Title

Veterinary Medical Journal (Giza)

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FOOD BORNE FUNGI IN SPARROWS

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23 Dec 2024