TABLE 2.
Top five Salmonella serovars from German food, laying hens, broilers, pigs, and cattle isolates submitted in 2019 to NRLs for serotyping.
| Food (all categories) | Laying hens | Broilers | Pigs | Cattle | |||||
| n = 750 | n = 143 | n = 52 | n = 995 | n = 307 | |||||
| Serovar | % | Serovar | % | Serovar | % | Serovar | % | Serovar | % |
| S. Typhimurium, monophasic | 14.5 | S. Enteritidis | 43.8 | S. Infantis | 23.1 | S. Typhimurium, monophasic | 40.7 | S. Typhimurium | 36.4 |
| S. Typhimurium | 13.6 | S. Typhimurium | 13.7 | S. Paratyphi B dT+ | 17.3 | S. Typhimurium | 18.8 | S. Typhimurium, monophasic | 13.2 |
| S. Infantis | 12.8 | S. spp. I rough1 | 5.5 | S. Enteritidis | 15.4 | S. Derby | 18.3 | S. Dublin | 27.4 |
| S. Derby | 10.0 | S. Mbandaka | 4.8 | S. Saintpaul | 5.8 | S. spp. I rough1 | 4.6 | S. Enteritidis | 7.1 |
| S. spp. I rough1 | 8.5 | S. Kiambu | 2.7 | S. Coeln | 5.8 | S. Infantis | 2.1 | other serovars | 15.9 |
1S. spp. I rough: Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica harboring a rough lipopolysaccharide disabling serovar determination.