Figure 1.

Multidrug-resistant (MDR) Salmonella enterica serovar Heidelberg (S. Heidelberg) fecal shedding from turkeys. At 3 weeks of age, individually housed turkeys were inoculated with 10⁸ (n = 8) or 10¹⁰ (n = 7) CFU of MDR S. Heidelberg. Feces was collected at the indicated time points, and quantitative and qualitative bacteriology was performed to determine fecal shedding of MDR S. Heidelberg. Four turkeys from each group were euthanized at day 7 dpi resulting in smaller groups for the remaining time points. Error bars indicate SEM.