TABLE 2.
Campylobacter species and Salmonella serovar carriage rates of fecal samples from yellow-legged gull chicks sampled throughout three western Mediterranean colonies
| Species or serovar | No. (%) of infected gull chicks froma: |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Medes Islands (n = 75) | Ebro Delta (n = 36) | Columbretes Islands (n = 71) | |
| Campylobacter species | |||
| C. jejuni | 8 | 0 | 1 |
| C. coli | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| C. lari | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Not determined | 6 | 2 | 2 |
| Total carriers | 14 (18.67) | 2 (5.56) | 3 (4.23) |
| S. enterica subsp. salamae serovar Sofia (4,12:b:-) | 1 (1.33) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| S. enterica subsp. enterica serovar | |||
| Azteca | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Bardo | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Brandenburg | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Bredeney | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Corvallis | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Derby | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Enteritidis | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Hadar | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Ituri | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Lexington | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Newport | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Paratyphi B | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Rissen | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Typhimurium | 6 | 1 | 2 |
| Virchow | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1,4,5,12:i:- | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1,4,12:i:- | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 4,12:i:- | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 4,5,12:i:- | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Total carriers | 16 (21.33) | 4 (11.11) | 11 (15.49) |
a
Bacterial prevalences are in parentheses.