A doctoral dissertation at Kirkuk University discusses the detection of sources of Escherichia coli contamination and resistance genes in poultry meat cuts.

The College of Agriculture discussed a doctoral thesis on detecting sources of contamination with E. coli bacteria and resistance genes in some poultry meat cuts for two seasons and two different regions, by student Muhammad Mahmoud Muhammad. The thesis aimed to identify E. coli bacteria on the surfaces of poultry carcasses and carcasses in Sulaymaniyah slaughterhouses by culturing and the VITEK 2 system, and to perform genotyping of E. coli bacteria isolates using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) targeting virulence genes, including stx 1, stx 2 and eae in both serotypes O157 and non-O157.