Epidemiological study of sausage in Algeria: Prevalence, quality assessment, and antibiotic resistance of isolates and the risk factors associated with consumer habits affecting foodborne poisoning.

Aim: The first aim was to assess the quality and determine the prevalence and antibiotic susceptibility of contamination of raw sausage sold in ten municipalities in the Northeast of Algeria. Second, a consumer sausage purchasing survey was designed to investigate potential risk factors that have a significant association with the occurrence of foodborne poisoning among sausage consumers' behavior and its relationship with independent variables.

Materials And Methods: A total of 230 butcheries from ten departments (Daira) of Algiers with more than 40 municipalities were included randomly in these studies to collect raw sausage samples and to distribute 700 structured questionnaires to meat consumers.