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. 2012 Dec;78(23):8403–8411. doi: 10.1128/AEM.02272-12

Table 2.

The 40 most common disease-causing S. enterica serovars from the United States in 1996 to 2006a

Rankb % human disease S. enterica serovarc Concordanced
1 19.2 Typhimurium (+1) Concordant
2 17.8 Enteritidis Semiconcordant
3 8.4 Newport Concordant
4 5.2 Heidelberg Concordant
5 3.4 Javiana (+1) Concordant
6 2.4 Typhimurium var. 5- (+1) Concordant
7 2.4 Montevideo (+3) Concordant
8 2.0 Muenchen (+1) Concordant
9 1.7 Oranienburg Semiconcordant
10 1.6 Saintpaul Semiconcordant
11 1.5 Infantis Semiconcordant
12 1.5 Thompson Semiconcordant
13 1.5 Braenderup Concordant
14 1.5 Agona (+1) Concordant
16 1.1 Hadar (+1) Concordant
19 1.0 Paratyphi B var. Java (+1) Concordant
20 0.8 Poona Concordant
22 0.6 Stanley (+1) Concordant
23 0.6 Anatum (+1) Concordant
24 0.5 Bareilly Concordant
25 0.5 Mbandaka Discordant
26 0.5 Paratyphi B Semiconcordant
27 0.5 Hartford Discordant
28 0.4 Panama Semiconcordant
29 0.4 Derby Semiconcordant
30 0.4 Litchfield Discordant
31 0.4 Schwarzengrund Semiconcordant
32 0.4 Senftenberg (+10) Concordant
33 0.4 Brandenburg (+10) Concordant
34 0.3 Sandiego Discordant
36 0.3 Give Semiconcordant
38 0.2 Rubislaw Semiconcordant
a

See reference 7.

b

The following serovars, with their corresponding ranks, were not available for analysis: rank 15, I 4,[5],12:i:-; rank 17, Mississippi; rank 18, Typhi; rank 21, Berta; rank 35, Paratyphi A; rank 37, Reading; rank 39, Norwich; and rank 40, Miami.

c

Numbers in parentheses are the number of other serovars identified at the top confidence level along with the concordant serovar.

d

Concordant, the serology and PCR-MS results matched for all isolates; semiconcordant, the serology and PCR-MS results matched for some but not all isolates; discordant, the serology and PCR-MS results did not match for any isolates.