Table 1.
Frequency distribution of Salmonella serovars in poultry meat and diarrhoeic patients
| Source | Poultry meat | Diarrhoeic patients (n = 50) | Total (150) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken (n = 50) | Duck (n = 50) | Total (n = 100) | |||
| No. (%) | No. (%) | No. (%) | No. (%) | No. (%) | |
| Serotype | |||||
| S. Typhimurium (O1,4,[5],12 H1: i H2: 1,2) | 5 (10) | 0 (0) | 5 (5) | 2 (4) | 7 (4.7) |
| S. Rubislaw (O11 H1: r H2: e,n,x) | 1 (2) | 0 (0) | 1 (1) | 0 (0) | 1(0.7) |
| S. Kiel (O1,2,12 H1: g, p H2:–) | 1 (2) | 0 (0) | 1 (1) | 0 (0) | 1 (0.7) |
| S. Derby (O1,4,[5],12 H1: f,g H2: [1,2]) | 0 (0) | 1 (2) | 1 (1) | 0 (0) | 1 (0.7) |
| Untypable | 0 (0) | 2 (4) | 2 (2) | 0 (0) | 2 (1.3) |
| Total | 7 (14) | 3 (6) | 10 (10) | 2 (4) | 12 (8) |