Table 4. Percentage (95% CI) of raccoon fecal, soil, manure pit, and dumpster samples testing positive for Salmonella that were detected and serotyped for each serovar overall and according to location type in southwestern Ontario from May–November 2011–2013.a.
| Conservation Area | Swine Farm | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Serovar | Feces | Soil | Manure pit | Dumpster | Feces | Soil | Feces | Soil |
| (n = 279) | (n = 89) | (n = 21) | (n = 7) | (n = 187) | (n = 42) | (n = 92) | (n = 47) | |
| Newport | 21.5 | 18.0 | — | 42.8 | 14.4 | 7.1 | 35.9 | 27.6 |
| (16.8–26.8) | (10.6–27.5) | (9.9–81.6) | (9.7–20.3) | (1.5–19.5) | (26.1–46.5) | |||
| Oranienburg | 16.1 | 9.0 | — | — | 23.5 | 19.0 | 1.1 | — |
| (12.0–21.0) | (4.0–16.9) | (17.6–30.3) | (8.6–34.1) | (0.03–5.9) | ||||
| I:4,[5],12:b:- | 13.6 | 6.7 | — | — | 15.5 | 9.5 | 9.8 | 2.6 |
| (9.8–18.2) | (2.5–14.1) | (10.6–21.5) | (2.6–22.6) | (4.6–17.8) | (0.3–9.1) | |||
| Thompson | 12.9 | 19.1 | — | 14.3 | 16.6 | 28.6 | 5.4 | 10.6 |
| (9.2–17.4) | (11.5–28.8) | (0.4–57.9) | (11.6–22.7) | (15.7–44.6) | (1.8–12.2) | (3.5–23.1) | ||
| Typhimurium | 10.4 | 13.5 | 4.8 | 14.3 | 11.8 | 14.3 | 7.6 | 12.8 |
| (7.1–14.6) | (7.2–22.4) | (0.1–23.8) | (0.4–57.9) | (7.5–17.3) | (54.2–28.5) | (3.1–15.0) | (4.8–25.7) | |
| Agona | 5.7 | 9.0 | 23.8 | — | — | — | 17.4 | 17.0 |
| (3.3–9.1) | (4.0–16.9) | (8.2–47.2) | (10.3–26.7) | (7.6–30.8) | ||||
| Infantis | 5.0 | 5.6 | 14.3 | — | 3.2 | — | 8.7 | 10.6 |
| (2.8–8.3) | (1.8–12.6) | (3.0–36.3) | (1.2–6.9) | (3.8–16.4) | (3.5–23.1) | |||
| Heidelberg | 3.2 | 2.2 | — | — | 4.3 | 4.8 | 1.1 | — |
| (1.5–6.0) | (0.3–7.9) | (1.9–8.3) | (0.6–16.2) | (0.03–5.9) | ||||
| Hartford | 1.4 | 2.2 | — | — | 0.5 | 2.4 | 3.3 | 2.1 |
| (0.4–3.6) | (0.3–7.9) | (0.01–2.9) | (0.01–12.6) | (0.7–9.2) | (0.05–11.3) | |||
| Johannesburg | 1.1 | — | — | — | 1.6 | — | — | — |
| (0.2–3.1) | (0.3–4.6) | |||||||
| Litchfield | 1.1 | — | — | — | 1.6 | — | — | — |
| (0.2–3.1) | (0.3–4.6) | |||||||
| Berta | 0.7 | — | — | — | 1.1 | — | — | — |
| (0.01–2.6) | (0.1–3.8) | |||||||
| Enteritidis | 0.7 | 1.1 | — | — | 0.5 | — | 1.1 | 2.1 |
| (0.01–2.6) | (0.03–6.1) | (0.01–2.9) | (0.03–5.9) | (0.05–11.3) | ||||
| Hadar | 0.7 | 1.1 | — | — | 0.5 | — | 1.1 | 2.1 |
| (0.01–2.6) | (0.03–6.1) | (0.01–2.9) | (0.03–5.9) | (0.05–11.3) | ||||
| I:Rough-O:b:- | 0.4 | 1.1 | — | — | 0.5 | 2.4 | — | — |
| (0.001–2.0) | (0.03–6.1) | (0.01–2.9) | (0.01–12.6) | |||||
| Give | 0.4 | 2.2 | — | — | 0.5 | 4.8 | — | — |
| (0.001–2.0) | (0.3–7.9) | (0.01–2.9) | (0.6–16.2) | |||||
| IIIb:11:k:z53 | 0.4 | 1.1 | — | — | — | — | 1.1 | 2.1 |
| (0.001–2.0) | (0.03–6.1) | (0.03–5.9) | (0.05–11.3) | |||||
| Poona | 0.4 | 2.2 | 4.8 | — | — | — | 1.1 | 4.2 |
| (0.001–2.0) | (0.3–7.9) | (0.1–23.8) | (0.03–5.9) | (5.2–14.5) | ||||
| Schwarzengrund | 0.4 | — | — | 14.3 | — | — | 1.1 | — |
| (0.001–2.0) | (0.4–57.9) | (0.03–5.9) | ||||||
| Livingstone | — | 1.1 | 9.5 | — | — | — | — | 2.1 |
| (0.03–6.1) | (1.2–30.4) | (0.05–11.3) | ||||||
| Livingstone var. 14+ | — | — | 33.3 | — | — | — | — | — |
| (14.6–57.0) | ||||||||
| Other serovarsb | 3.9 | 4.5 | 9.5 | 14.3 | 3.7 | 7.1 | 4.3 | 2.1 |
| (2.0–6.9) | (1.2–11.1) | (1.2–30.4) | (0.4–57.9) | (1.5–7.6) | (1.5–19.5) | (1.2–10.8) | (0.05–11.3) | |
| Total Salmonella Positive | 25.5 | 5.5 | 30.4 | 22.6 | 27.1 | 5.2 | 22.8 | 5.8 |
| Total sample size | 1093 | 1609 | 69 | 31 | 689 | 803 | 404 | 806 |
a The dash indicates none were detected; n = total number of samples testing positive for Salmonella.
b Other serovars are those that were detected once and in only one sample type. They include the following:
• Fecal, conservation area: I:Rough-O:e,h:1,2, I:Rough-O:k:1,5, ssp. I:4,5,12:i:- (U291), ssp. I:6,8:e,h:-, Kentucky, Montevideo, Oranienburg var. 14+
• Soil, conservation area: IIIb:11:k:-, ssp. I:4,12:i:- (U291), ssp. I:11:k:-
• Dumpster: Pomona
• Fecal, swine farm: Infantis var 14+, Braenderup, Molade, Rissen
• Soil, swine farm: Kiambu
• Lagoon: I:Rough-O:l,v:e,n,z15, Mbandaka