Table 1.
Salmonella reduction throughout the production cycle of trials 1 and 2 for farmhouses treated with and without SalmoFree.
| Farmhouse/sampling point* | No of cloacal swaps Salmonella positive** | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trial I | Trial II | ||||||||||
| 1b | 1a | 2b | 2a | 3b | 3a | 1b | 1a | 2b | 2a | 3b*** | |
| Control farmhouse 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 2 |
| Control farmhouse 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| Phage-treated farmhouse 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 3 |
| Phage-treated farmhouse 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 0 |
Data modified from Clavijo et al.32.
*Nomenclature of the sampling point corresponds to the number of dose (1–3) followed by a letter indicating whether it was taken a day before (b) or after (a) the corresponding dose.
**Total number of swaps sampled: n = 5 in Trial 1 and n = 10 in Trial 2.
***Data for samples taken after dose 3 (3a) in Trial 2 are not shown due to the accidental loss of the samples.