TABLE 1.
Numbers of VREF and VSEF isolates recovered from various poultry sources in Norway at different times and analyzed by the AFLP method
| Source of isolates | No. of isolates
|
Reference(s) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 1998 | 1999 | Total | ||
| Broiler or turkey feces | 15 | 20 | 14 | 49 | 4, 5, 14 |
| Broiler or turkey carcass | |||||
| VREF | 15 | 20 | 0 | 35 | 6, 14 |
| VSEF | 0 | 21 | 0 | 21 | Unpublished data |
| Total | 15 | 41 | 0 | 56 | |
| Broiler farm environment | 5 | ||||
| Farm 1 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 46 | |
| Farm 2 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 45 | |
| Farm 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 11 | |
| Farm 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
| Farm 5 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 | |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 113 | 113 | |
| Total | 30 | 61 | 127 | 218 | |