Table 1.
Salmonella serotype distributions by animal origin
| Origin of the samples | Serotype | No. of Salmonella-positive samples (%) | |||||
| (No. of samples) | FE a | DSEC b | total | ||||
| Broilers (n = 155) | Infantis | 19 | (12.3) | 16† | (10.3) | 35 | (22.6)† |
| Hadar | 4 | (2.6) | 0 | (0) | 4 | (2.6) | |
| Haifa | 1 | (0.6) | 1 | (0.6) | 2 | (1.3) | |
| Montevideo | 2 | (1.3) | 0 | (0) | 2 | (1.3) | |
| Schwarzengrund | 2 | (1.3) | 0 | (0) | 2 | (1.3) | |
| Thompson | 2 | (1.3) | 0 | (0) | 2 | (1.3) | |
| Augustenborg | 1 | (0.6) | 0 | (0) | 1 | (0.6) | |
| Blockley | 0 | (0) | 1 | (0.6) | 1 | (0.6) | |
| Istanbul | 0 | (0) | 1 | (0.6) | 1 | (0.6) | |
| Newport | 1† | (0.6) | 0 | (0) | 1 | (0.6)† | |
| Schleissheim | 1 | (0.6) | 0 | (0) | 1 | (0.6) | |
| Senftenberg | 1 | (0.6) | 0 | (0) | 1 | (0.6) | |
| untypeable | 2† | (1.3) | 3† | (1.9) | 5 | (3.2)† | |
| All serotypes | 35 | (22.5) | 21 | (13.5) | 56 | (36.1) | |
| Pigs (n = 180) | Typhimurium | 2 | (1.1) | 0 | (0) | 2 | (1.1) |
| Ohio | 0 | (0) | 1 | (0.6) | 1 | (0.6) | |
| untypeable | 1 | (0.6) | 1 | (0.6) | 2 | (1.1) | |
| All serotypes | 3 | (1.7) | 2 | (1.1) | 5 | (2.8) | |
| Cattle (n = 183) | Blockley | 1 | (0.5) | 0 | (0) | 1 | (0.5) |
| Total | 39 | (7.5) | 23 | (4.4) | 62 | (12.0) | |
a FE: First enrichment culture
bDSEC: delayed secondary enrichment culture
† Among samples, 2 harbored 2 different serotypes (Infantis and untypeable; Newport and untypeable).