Table 2.
Distribution of Salmonella serotypes recovered from representing stages in the two integrated broiler operations (A and B)
| Serotypes | No. (%) of Salmonella included | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broiler breeder hatchery | Broiler breeder farm | Broiler hatchery | Broiler farm | Broiler transporting truck | Chicken slaughterhouses | Total | ||||||||
| A (n = 2) | B (n = 0) | A (n = 16) | B (n = 138) | A (n = 23) | B (n = 75) | A (n = 20) | B (n = 72) | A (n = 1) | B (n = 4) | A (n = 10) | B (n = 14) | A (n = 78) | B (n = 304) | |
| Bradford | 2 (12.5) | 2 (2.6) | ||||||||||||
| Enteritidis | 5 (21.7) | 1 (1.3) | 2 (10.0) | 1 (25.0) | 1 (10.0) | 4 (28.6) | 8 (10.3) | 6 (2.0) | ||||||
| Hadar | 133 (96.4) | 43 (59.7) | 1 (25.0) | 3 (21.4) | 180 (59.2) | |||||||||
| Hato | 2 (100) | 1 (6.3) | 2 (8.7) | 2 (20.0) | 7 (9.0) | |||||||||
| Havana | 1 (0.7) | 1 (0.3) | ||||||||||||
| Heidelberg | 12 (75.0) | 5 (21.7) | 1 (10.0) | 18 (23.1) | ||||||||||
| London | 1 (1.4) | 1 (0.3) | ||||||||||||
| Menston | 2 (2.7) | 2 (0.7) | ||||||||||||
| Montevideo | 41 (51.4) | 3 (30.0) | 3 (21.4) | 3 (3.8) | 44 (14.5) | |||||||||
| Newport | 2 (14.3) | 2 (0.7) | ||||||||||||
| Reading | 1 (100) | 1 (25.0) | 1 (1.3) | 1 (0.3) | ||||||||||
| Senftenberg | 1 (4.3) | 31 (41.3) | 6 (8.3) | 2 (20.0) | 2 (14.3) | 3 (3.8) | 39 (12.8) | |||||||
| Thompson | 4 (5.6) | 4 (1.3) | ||||||||||||
| Typhimurium | 2 (1.4) | 2 (0.7) | ||||||||||||
| Ughelli | 1 (6.3) | 1 (1.3) | ||||||||||||
| Vellore | 1 (25.0) | 1 (0.3) | ||||||||||||
| Virchow | 16 (69.6) | 15 (75.0) | 2 (2.8) | 31 (39.7) | 2 (0.7) | |||||||||
| Untypable | 2 (1.4) | 3 (15.0) | 16 (22.2) | 1 (10.0) | 4 (5.1) | 19 (6.3) | ||||||||
n = No. of Salmonella isolated in this study